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// Safety Concerns // Powerpoint for school staff and how to maintain appropriate boundaries with students, including the use of technology. ////

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// Legal Issues // Students have been using various electronic devices to bully other students. The use of electronic devices to harass, intimidate, menace, or bully others has been named ‘cyberbullying’. School district’s have a harassment, intimidation, and menacing policies both in the student handbook and a part of district policy. These policies may not address specifically cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can occur on school grounds and off school grounds but create a substantial disruption to the education environment for a student. The legal issue is possible violation of students First and Fourteenth Amendment, Freedom of Speech, and the victim’s Eight Amendment, protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

The use of electronic devices has changed the landscape of how, when, and where a student can be harassed, intimidated or bullied. The elementary schools do not allow cell phones at school and the middle and high schools have policies that state they cannot be disruptive to the educational environment. This has not deterred the use of electronic devices for the purpose of harassing, intimidation, and bullying. There has been an increase in bullying behavior via text messaging, email, and postings on blogs, MySpace.com, and other WebPages. Students are sending and receiving these messages both within and after the school day. Electronic harassing, intimidation, and bullying has caused “substantial disruption to the educational environment” for these students. //Most of Oregon's school districts policy on harassment, intimidation, and bullying do not mention cyberbullying as defined in OAR 339.351 to 339.364. // // (1) “Cyberbullying” means the use of any electronic communication device to harass, intimidate or bully. // // (2) “Harassment, intimidation or bullying” means any act that substantially interferes with a student’s educational benefits, opportunities or performance, that takes place on or immediately adjacent to school grounds, at any school-sponsored activity, on school-provided transportation or at any official school bus stop, and that has the effect of: // // (a) Physically harming a student or damaging a student’s property; // // (b) Knowingly placing a student in reasonable fear of physical harm to the student or damage to the student’s property; or // // (c) Creating a hostile educational environment. [2001 c.617 §2; 2007 c.647 §1] //
 * OAR 339.351 to 339.364.**
 * //339.351 Definitions for ORS 339.351 to 339.364.// **// As used in ORS 339.351 to 339.364: //

[] Salem-Keizer School District's policy on student use of the internet.

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