The issue is as old as the teaching profession and as new as today: how do educators maintain appropriate boundaries with their students in the age of the Internet 2.0? On one hand, there are those who argue that, since this is where students congregate, use of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even [...]
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By Dan Berrett Pocono Record Writer May 21, 2009 Ryan Halligan was 13 when he wrapped a rope around his neck and hanged himself in his family’s bathroom. His tragic story — a tale involving depression, cyber-bullying and searing episodes of in-person humiliation — has become a mission for his grieving father, John. He has [...]
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By TONYA MOSLEY / KING 5 News SPANAWAY, Wash. – The talk of Elk Plain School of Choice Friday was not the three “R’s,” but rather a cartoon video that has brought the world of cyberbullying to light. The video, called “The Top 6 ways to Kill Piper,” depicts five girls describing ways to kill [...]
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By Bret Yager Hawaii Tribune-Herald Pahoa High and Intermediate School will ban electronic devices from campus starting next year. The school will also adopt T-shirt uniforms. There have been high incidences of theft and even arrests as students swipe each other’s cell phones, iPods, CD players and other electronics, said Principal Dean Cevallos. The ban [...]
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RAMONA —- The American Civil Liberties Union claims a sixth-grade student’s free-speech rights were violated after her school told her she could not give a classroom presentation about Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor assassinated in 1978, unless her classmates had signed permission slips from parents or guardians. The ACLU on Wednesday sent a [...]
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Cyber-bullying is back in the spotlight. Earlier this month the federal government announced it had established a Youth Advisory Group, consisting of young Australians, to advise it on cyber-bullying and other online issues. Within a week came the report that two year 9 students had been forced to leave a Sydney girls’ school for cyber-bullying. [...]
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“Oh! Oh! Can I hurt her too? It’s my favourite thing!” Giggle. Giggle. It’s recess time and these little girls just can’t wait to resume their favourite playtime activity. There is a video camera recording it all, but it doesn’t seem to matter. The girls drag the other girl to a playground tree. “Kiss it!” [...]
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TAMPA – Last year, Debbie Johnston helped pass a law that was hailed as one of the country’s toughest on school bullying. And when she read the news last week about the suspected rape of a 13-year-old at Walker Middle School, she felt sick. “I felt sick for the child who went through this, that [...]
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SPOKANE — School districts across the state are trying to stop bullying on school grounds but one North Spokane one family has pulled their child out of school due to constant bullying that the school has been unable to stop. It’s hard enough being in 4th grade. Try being the new kid in school and [...]
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A FIVE-year-old Queensland boy was scalped, stoned, hit and taunted in an atrocious case of schoolyard bullying – and the main perpetrator was the “buddy” charged with protecting him. Lachlan Antony Guerin suffered a minor brain injury during the sustained bullying by his school-assigned buddy and other older students at St John’s Lutheran Primary School [...]
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