The parents of a former middle school student have dropped a discrimination lawsuit that was based in part on the family's objections to a student newspaper column.Caroline Lineen, attorney for Mahopac Central School District, said that the plaintiffs, the parents of then-middle school student “H.B.”, suddenly chose to withdraw the complaint without explanation.
Tag: cyberbullying
Free speech organizations urge caution on federal anti-bullying guidelines
The sickening loss of young people harassed to the point of suicide has policymakers at all levels of government scrambling for answers.
Facebook, free speech and the new ‘D-word’
Apparently they don’t find douchebags funny in California, either.A Sacramento-area sophomore made headlines last week when his school reversed course on punishing him for insulting comments made on Facebook.
School districts chafing at cyberbullying liability should have heeded the “Spider-Man Rule”
The U.S. Department of Education's broadside warning that school districts may violate federal civil-rights law if they fail to prevent "cyberbullying" is provoking some pushback from the nation's school districts.The chief legal counsel for the National School Boards Association, Francisco Negron, told the DOE earlier this month that the Department's recent reinterpretation of the Title IX of the Civil Rights Act dangerously lowers the threshold for holding schools liable for student-on-student harassment.In a Dec.
AG Cuccinelli’s go-ahead to search student cell-phones raises Fourth Amendment questions
In the understandable haste to spare kids from the brutal impact of bullying, some school systems are pushing against constitutional boundaries to assert authority not only to seize students' cellphones but to read the messages stored on them.Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli waded into this controversy in a November 24 opinion issued at the request of a Virginia legislator, Robert Bell.
Four must-do stories for every high school newsroom from the latest federal report on crime and violence
Adults love to shake their heads about "kids these days" and how