Cyber Sexual Bullying: One More Reason To Boot Your Kids Out Of School
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 Cyber sexual bullying is now a suspendable or expellable offense in California schools. Bullying already is an expellable offense, but apparently the legislature did not think "bullying" alone was broad enough. As such, the legislature chose to add a new offense to the ever growing list of things a student may do wrong. Now students may not bully and also use or reference sexually explicit electronic communications, which are covered by this new subcategory of bullying. California Education Code �48900(r)(2)(iii) states: "...�cyber sexual bullying� means the dissemination of, or the solicitation or incitement to disseminate, a photograph or other visual recording by a pupil to another pupil or to school personnel by means of an electronic act that has or can be reasonably predicted to have one or more of the effects described in [the Bullying section] . A photograph or othe...