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Student accused of cyber-bullying
There's something fishy about this. KERO is reporting that a 14-year-old Beadsley Junior High School student was expelled for alleged cyber-bullying related to a video posted months ago on YouTube. The girl said she was only just recently expelled and will be unable to participate in graduation ceremonies. The KERO video accompanying the story contains what the girl says is the video that got her expelled. The fuzzy video shows a student -- not the girl expelled -- approaching another girl in an outdoor hallway, lightly tapping her shoe, then running away. School officials, citing privacy laws, didn't comment, so we don't know the full justification for their decision. Context can be everything, we know, but the "bullying" in the YouTube video seems flimsy at best. Makes us wonder if we're getting the full story. 1 comments from 1 users
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catpaw
on May 22, 2009 at 08:46 AM
I saw the story and few-second video. It does seem to be an extreme definition of "bullying." However, the school district was not interviewed in the report; I did not see the entire content or text of the YouTube post. The student and her parent are, of course, saying the the bullying charge and the video post is harmless and the child is a model of innocence and being singled out unfairly. I'll agree the full story and circumstances are not being told.
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