Dealing with Online Bullies Outside the Classroom
The New York Times recently posed a question on Facebook about the role of schools in regulating the off-campus and online behavior of their students...
A study in the journal Pediatrics found that youths who were bullied in fifth grade had a higher risk of developing depression symptoms by seventh grade, and of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana abuse by 10th grade, compared with peers who weren't bullied. The findings were based on 2004 to 2011 data involving nearly 4,300 children in Birmingham, Alabama, Los Angeles and Houston.