Craig Civale reports: The United Educators Association in Fort Worth is encouraging its 20,000 members to use camera phones to deal with unruly students inside the classroom. It’s a controversial subject that most North Texas school districts say they haven’t had to deal with, but with technology creeping into the classrooms, some say it’s only a matter…
Category: Youth & Schools
NZ: Principals call to search students’ cellphones, laptops
Principals want the power to search students’ cellphones and laptops to combat cyber-bullying. The call comes as part of a change in the way schools deal with the problem, with principals shifting away from restorative justice to suspending bullies. Secondary Principals’ Association president Patrick Walsh said principals were being forced to take a heavier hand…
Supreme Court to hear Facebook cyberbullying case
Natalie Stechyson reports: A teenage girl who says she was a victim of Facebook cyberbullying will have her case heard in Canada’s top court on Thursday where she’ll try to keep her name out of the public eye once and for all. The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether the girl from Nova Scotia,…
Montana judge says contraceptive ban violates teens’ privacy
Matt Volz reports: A Montana judge has struck down the state’s ban on prescription birth control coverage for teenage girls enrolled in its low-income health insurance program Healthy Montana Kids, the insurance program for families with incomes up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level, had covered prescription contraceptives for uses such as preventing…