A high school freshman in New York was suspended for her anti-bullying class projects: a YouTube video and a Facebook page featuring a fictitious bullying victim, who commits suicide. Educators allegedly said that the student’s actions could lead to jail…
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Safety Law News for 6/8/12
Indianapolis Public Schools expelled a student who brought a stun gun to school. His mother gave him the stun gun to protect himself against bullies — and the community is vocally protesting his expulsion. A New Jersey principal wants parents…
Safety Law News for 6/4/12
The Atlantic asks: Do Cell Phones Belong in the Classroom? A new FCC condition on federal technology funds — combined with a new anti-cyberbullying law in Ohio — mean that educators face new imperatives in teaching students about social media…
Safety Law News for 6/1/12
Connecticut educators discuss how to define bullying, even as they acknowledge the perception that, “Anything that happens, it all becomes bullying.” They note the need to distinguish bullying, civil rights violations, and criminal actions. In addition, a video provides details…
School Safety Law News for 5/31/12
San Antonio schools will track students with chips embedded in ID cards, which only work on buses and on campus, in an effort to increase attendance funding. Student privacy is a concern, while one board trustee says that she does not want…
School Safety Law News for 5/21/12
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that 4 percent of students were “afraid of attack or harm at school” in 2009 — a threefold decline from the 12 percent who were thus afraid in 1995. Educators discuss how they…
School Safety Law News for 5/14/12
Texas students claim that a riot broke out on campus — and they posted videos and pictures, taken with their cell phones, online. Educators claim that students created a prank riot and are giving the wrong impression via social media.…
School Safety Law News for 5/7/12
The Atlantic features asks whether student rights—and the threat of lawsuits—undermines educators’ ability to educate. The Massachusetts high court will rule on whether police can access student records, after an SRO provided a photo for a police lineup. Parents discipline…
School Safety Law News for 5/1/12
California educators once fought cell phones at school. Now they are using cell phones in the classroom, as a way to solicit comments and feedback from every student in attendance. Bully, the documentary, released in movie theaters last month, features…
School Safety Law News for 4/26/12
A school is not liable for the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl, even though the man who harmed her checked her out of school six different times without authorization, according to a ruling by the full Fifth Circuit Court…