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37 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 227 (2011)
Allegations of School District Liability for Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Teen Suicides after Sexting: Are New Legal Standards Emerging in the Courts

handle is hein.journals/nejccc37 and id is 231 raw text is: Allegations of School District Liability for Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Teen Suicides after Sexting: Are New Legal Standards Emerging in the Courts? Kathleen Conn* I. INTRODUCTION As the incidence and intensity of students' misuses of technology continue to rise, and the tragic student suicides linked to bullying, cyberbullying and sexting mount; the American public increasingly looks to the educational system to fix the problems.' Allegations of school district liability for failing to curb bullying and cyberbullying, once relatively rare, are now commonplace in the courts.2 As recently as ten years ago, lawsuits alleging school liability for bullying were mainly couched as Title IX peer sexual harassment claims. The bar to a plaintiff s * Associate Professor, Division of Education and Human Services, Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania; Adjunct Professor, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware; Former Member, Executive Board of Education Law Association; Author's Advisory Committee, West' Education Law Reporter. 1. See Diane D'Amico, Local School Districts Try to Stop Bullying - In Person and Online, PRESSOFATLANTICCITY.COM, (Mar. 16, 2011, 7:31 PM), http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/local-school-districts-try-to-stop- bullying-in-person-and/article_76660188-5026-lle0-ab5O-001cc4c002e0.html (Bullying is not just a school problem, but parents expect schools to manage it.); see also Bianca Solorzano, Bullying: Do Schools Need a New Approach?, CBS NEWS.COM (Apr. 4, 2010), http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/04/eveningnews/ main6363045.shtml (Too many times have I personally witnessed parents who expected the school to do more than we are permitted under the law.). 2. Christian Nolan, Fighting Bullying with Lawsuits, THE CONN. L. TRIB. (Oct. 29, 2010), http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202474106893&Fighting Bullying With_ Lawsuits. 3. See Kathleen Conn, Bullying in K-12 Public Schools: Searching for Solutions, COMMONWEALTH EDUC. POL'Y INST., 4 (2006), http://www.cepi.vcu.edu/pdf/Policy%20 Briefs/Kathleen%20Conn-Bullying%20VCU%20PolicyPaper/202-11-06.pdf. 227

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