Last year at Oak Harbor High School, four bullies were threatening a fellow student.
But they weren’t meeting her outside for a fight, or even yelling names at her — they were texting her.
Bullying has taken a technological turn, and officials at Oak Harbor School District are looking for ways to control it. Under a proposed new policy, that may mean seizing students’ cellphones with probable cause.
But do schools have that right? The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU) says no.