Thursday, November 14, 2013

Manchester High To Punish Students Engaged In Online Bullying

Hartford Courant (Manchester, CT) November 13, 2013

"Manchester High School administrators are vowing to punish students for a pervasive type of bullying — the social media posting of a list of female students described by one source as 'nasty, graphic and disturbing.'
Administrators learned on Friday that lists posted online "contained names of and derogatory information about some female students who attend the high school," Principal Matt Geary wrote in a letter to the school community.
'Multiple' students were involved in creating the lists, Geary wrote. A source who spoke on the condition of not being named said a group of boys at Manchester High created a list that used the full names of some girls and extremely degrading descriptions. One of the boys posted the list on Twitter, the source said." Read More

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