Bullying Goes High Tech

School-Yard Bullies Add Internet To Arsenal Of Pain describes the new twists the age-old art of bullying has taken on in this Web-based society of ours. A few years ago bullies were in your face. You couldn't avoid them. My eldest son used to arrive early at his public high school just so he could avoid being shaken down for lunch money by some thug named Mad Dog.

Now bullies publish Web sites with nasty copy and demeaning photos. They flood your cell phone with text messages. It's hard to battle cyber-bullies. What's even scarier is that bullying occurs whenever adults are not present.

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