Law+Cases

Technology Policy And Legal issues: Canadian focused. Scott Mcleod does a good job of summarizing internet legal issues in U.S schools here https://breeze5.umn.edu/cyberbullying

He puts forth 3 key principals

1. Schools have an affirmative obligation to protect student and/or staff from threatening, abusive, harassing or bullying conduct. 2. The default rule is that student speech in schools is protected 3. Schools may disipline students for out of school conduct that substantially interfere with the normal operations of the school.

When he looks at what happens when incident occurs off school grounds, Scott Mcleod refers to //Lander v. Seaver// (1859) "where the defendant teacher whipped the plaintiff student with a small rawhide for having ridiculed him in the presence of the teacher and some fellow pupils in front of the teacher's home after school hours and after the student had returned home from school, the court, although reversing a judgment for the teacher on other grounds in an action for assault and battery, stated that the teacher had the right to punish the pupil for his misconduct"