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CASE 1: CYBER BULLY
4th Circuit in Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools
upheld the discipline of a student who created a MySpace page targeting another student in her high school. The page was called “Students Against Sluts Herpes” and invited other MySpace participants from her school to join it. One of the other students posted photos of the female student who was the target. One of the photos was altered to show the female student with red dots on her face, to suggest that she had herpes. School officials determined that Kowalski had created a “hate” website in violation of school policies against harassment, bullying, and intimidation and suspended her from school for five days and gave her a “social suspension” of ninety days, thus barring her from school activities including the cheerleading squad.
In a unanimous ruling by a three judge panel of the 4th Circuit the court said “Such harassment and bullying is inappropriate and hurtful and...it must be taken seriously by school administrators in order to preserve an appropriate pedagogical environment.” The Court found that the targeting of a classmate through the internet was done “...in a manner that was sufficiently connected to the school environment as to implicate the school district’s recognized authority to discipline speech which materially and substantially interferes with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school and collides with the rights of other
