States Passing Laws to Combat Cyber-Bullying
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LOS ANGELES -- In California, a hateful Internet campaign followed sixth-grader Olivia Gardner through three schools. In Vermont, a humiliated Ryan Halligan, 13, took his own life after being encouraged to do so by one of his middle-school peers. And in perhaps the most notorious case, Lori Drew,...
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I hope more and more states pass laws against cyber bullying. I think this is one of those peer pressure things that kids nowadays have to put up with. In my day you just had to go home and shut the door to keep the bullies out. With the internet kids get bullied even in their own bedroom. We need to put a end to all bullying.
The tight grip of new-age bullying
School children are at risk of text and cyber bullying because of out-of-date policies originally set to protect them, a report into a Wellington bullying case has found. Ref. Source 6