Something that hits close to home for me, is the inability to do something based on where the bullying takes place. When I approached the principal of my sister's school over a year ago, I was told that because the proof of the bullying that we had took place off school property and not during school hours, that there was nothing that could be done from a school's standpoint.
"“We decline to say that simply because the disruption to the learning environment originates from a computer located off campus, the school should be left powerless to discipline the student,” the three-judge circuit panel had written a year ago."
I was lucky to have a good relationship with the principal of my sister's school. I was a former student of his and he listened to the problem and DID speak to the offender. However, the aggressor was not disciplined formally. I wish that I would've thought of the words spoken above and used that in my defense to have more done with all this started. The actions of the bully, while they took place off campus, still impacted my sisters learning environment. So in that regard, regardless of where bullying takes place, school officials need to have the authority to discipline.
"A California appeals court ruled [March 2010] that threatening posts made by readers of a website are not protected free speech, allowing a case charging the posters with hate crimes and defamation to proceed."
"...ruling, which supports the student, concerned a former Florida high senior who was reprimanded for “cyberbullying” a teacher on Facebook. Katherine Evans... was suspended ... after creating a Facebook group devoted to her English teacher."
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