"I am looking for an advice in a situation my little brother got himself into: he's in a private school right now - his freshman year - and it seems that he's become "labeled". While he's not an angel (what 15 y.o. is?), we feel like he's being almost set up, and persecuted...The latest incident involved a posting that he put up on his "myspace" profile. He got into an argument with a girl (she happened to go to his sister-school), and right after a phone conversation with her, put a posting that mentioned her, and had profane language. This was done on a saturday, from his home computer, on a page that in no way mentions his school (or hers). Somehow this posting was faxed to his school, and he's been suspended for 1 day, and will have to miss a day of finals because my mom will go to talk to the principal. While he got his punishment from my parents for doing such a nasty thing, we think that the school shouldn't have punished him because this was done off campus, on his private computer, and had nothing to do with school... I don't think he was right to do this...but did the school have the right to waste our $50 a day because he swore on some girl from his home computer?"
Read my reply in the Forum.
Bullying Bullying plays a role in school violence. Problem is that bullying goes underground when adults are around. In other words the intimidation exists even though no blows are thrown. Reduce or eliminate bullying and you will make your school a safer place for every student.
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