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School Liability: Holding Middle Schools Liable for Cyber-Bullying despite Their Implementation of Internet Usage Contracts
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I. INTRODUCTION
In a small town in Missouri, a thirteen-year-old girl hung herself after being rejected, insulted and harassed on the social networking site Myspace.1 Not far away, a teenage cheerleader in Florida was lured to a friend's home and then beaten in retaliation for taunting students on Myspace.2 While these two incidents bear characteristics common to old-fashioned bullying, they are unique in that they represent a growing trend in today's technological society, cyber-bullying.
Cyber-bullying is "the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, [which] is intended to harm …
