By Cathy Hughes, The Times-Picayune A bill that would make it a crime for one youth to send another an intimidating or threatening text, e-mail or computer message was reworked by a Senate committee Tuesday to make it apply to adults who harass young people. MORE >>>
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(NOTE: This bill apparently repeats the same mistake virtually every other jurisdiction has made when it comes to addressing off-campus cyberbullying. It incorporates the (ahem) “substantial disruption” standard of Tinker v Des Moines SD. As I have noted in the past, that is a standard based on age bias, since “disruption” is commonly interpreted by the [...]
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A staggering 62 per cent of pupils in Malta consider bullying a problem in their school, according to research by the British council. The research was conducted across more than 50 schools in Europe who were chosen for their mix of children from different backgrounds. MORE >>>
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This study examined the influence of individual level and organizational level factors towards teachers’ responses to bullying. The unit of analysis for this study was teachers. The study collected data from teachers in twenty schools within a small southern public school system. This study was interested in teachers’ perceptions regarding bullying. MORE >>>
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