If cyberbullying incidents occur at home or outside of school, how responsible is the school to address the issue?
Are there consequences for the school and they do not take action? >> Yes. There’s most likely not. In fact, if you look at many of the issues, they tend to water the language down quite a bit and in many cases such as the case in Oregon and Washington, they restrict the schools’ authority to cyberbullying taking place on campus with use of the school computers. Part of the reason is because schools that want to face liability for something that may take place outside of jurisdiction and their ability to address it. That’s a real concern. On one hand we don’t want schools reaching to people’s houses and invading the privacy. On the other hand, we don’t want schools being sued because they didn’t reach in from privacy. It’s kind of a very difficult choice for many schools. It actually comes down to this. If there’s a reason to believe that harm may occur and they know about that, they’ve got a duty to stop it. If they believe the threat is a legitimate threat, the student might be a dan
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