It was more JR high (12-13) than H.S., but when we moved I got to leave my old reputation behind and reinvent myself at 16. It was very good for me.
Spending time with the kids can be hard, with often both parents working and kids buried in homework. Discussed this very topic with my 15 year old today, since you brought it up. Shockingly her first comment was that the girl deserved to be taunted. And at first I wanted to say that I have never heard of teens texting each other nude pictures around here, but I do remember the principle of my daughter jr. high suspending a boy for having naked pictures on his phone. (That had been confiscated because he was using during class.) And that particular school was doing a good job keeping the bullying to a minimum, the principle was honestly trying.
We also discussed this article the LA Times had today about "A right for students to be cruel" (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-youtube-schools13-2009dec13,0,6677934.story). Adds a twist to the cyber bullying and punishment. It's about how students are suing and winning lawsuits saying schools are overstepping their bounds when disciplining kids for bullying while not on schools grounds. I do agree with the judges here because our 1st amendment rights in the U.S can't be selectively enforced. This is a bit different from forwarding naked pictures, because US Law considers those pictures pornographic. Makes the whole disciplining the bullies challenging.
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Spending time with the kids can be hard, with often both parents working and kids buried in homework. Discussed this very topic with my 15 year old today, since you brought it up. Shockingly her first comment was that the girl deserved to be taunted. And at first I wanted to say that I have never heard of teens texting each other nude pictures around here, but I do remember the principle of my daughter jr. high suspending a boy for having naked pictures on his phone. (That had been confiscated because he was using during class.) And that particular school was doing a good job keeping the bullying to a minimum, the principle was honestly trying.
We also discussed this article the LA Times had today about "A right for students to be cruel" (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-youtube-schools13-2009dec13,0,6677934.story). Adds a twist to the cyber bullying and punishment. It's about how students are suing and winning lawsuits saying schools are overstepping their bounds when disciplining kids for bullying while not on schools grounds. I do agree with the judges here because our 1st amendment rights in the U.S can't be selectively enforced. This is a bit different from forwarding naked pictures, because US Law considers those pictures pornographic. Makes the whole disciplining the bullies challenging.