Educational Technology

July 9, 2010

Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by JAN HOFFMAN, New York Times

The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J. “I said, ‘This occurred out of school, on a weekend,’ ” recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. “We can’t discipline him.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html?_r=1

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