Despite the media spotlight on cyberbullying, only 26 percent of K-12 teachers say they’ve taught kids how to handle online harassment over the past year, says a survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Microsoft. At the same time, only 15 percent of educators said they’ve spoken to students about web content, including…
Category: Youth & Schools
AU: Doubts raised about school search plan
Dan O’Sullivan reports: The state government’s proposal to increase the search and seizure powers of teachers and principals outside school grounds has been met with a mixed response from local schools and police. The legislation being debated in Parliament will allow principals and teachers to search for weapons in parents’ cars in an attempt by…
Tyler Clementi’s parents want roommate prosecuted, not severely punished
Kelly Heyboer reports: Six months after their son’s suicide, the parents of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi said for the first time yesterday they do not want his former roommate to receive a “harsh punishment” for allegedly using a webcam to spy on the freshman’s intimate encounter with another man. But the family does want…
Texas Teen Scores Legal First in ‘Sexting’ Privacy Case
Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…