If you don't like something change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou
inspire daily calendar Mon 7 May 2012
"Cyberbullying" is when a child or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, or otherwise targeted by another child or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies, or mobile phones.
When schools try and get involved by disciplining a student for cyberbullying actions that took place off-campus and outside of school hours, they are often sued for exceeding their authority and violating the student's free speech rights. But schools can be very effective brokers in working with parents to stop and remedy cyberbullying situations. They can also educate students on cyberethics and the law. If schools are creative, they can somethimes avoid the claim that their actions exceeded their legal authority for off-campus cyberbullying actions. A provision can be added to the school's acceptable use policy reserving the right to discipline the student for actions taken off-campus if they are intended to have an effect on another student or they adversely affect the safety and well-being of students while in school. This makes it a contractual, not a constitutional, issue.
- www.stopcyberbullying.org
Teachers daily calendar Thu 28 May 2009
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