SPOKANE, Wash. – Just days after testing a cell phone jammer designed to block students from calling and texting during class, a Spokane area school has scrapped the program. Administrators at Mt. Spokane High School used the jammer during class periods last week to prevent students from texting. The jammer blocked all cell phone service [...]
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Harassment occurred off campus so jurisdiction unclear, officials say by Chris Kenrick Palo Alto Online Staff In a recent incident in which local teens “cyberbullied” a fellow Palo Alto student, school district officials said they helped remove the offending website and notified the parents of “six or eight” perpetrators who are students at Gunn [...]
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Bullying may seem like a grade school problem, but Ellen Kraft knows how the Internet has extended its reach. A professor in the business school at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Kraft has been studying bullying in its newest form – cyberbullying – and how the schoolyard bully can easily reach into college [...]
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The school prospectus told them their daughters “deserve the Roseville experience”, but for Grant and Gloria Mears that experience allegedly involved sub-standard academic results, school bullying and self-harm. Mr and Mrs Mears pulled three of their daughters out of the exclusive Roseville College in early 2007, saying it was responsible for their eldest daughter, Anna, [...]
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Homophobic bullying is rife in Britain’s schools according to teachers, with many incidents going unreported, research has suggested. Ninety per cent of secondary school teachers say that pupils in their schools have been bullied, harassed or called names because they are, or are perceived to be, gay. The Teachers’ Report, commissioned by Stonewall, found that [...]
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