A recent wave of student-on-student cyberbullying through fake online social profiles has thrown the problem into the spotlight and prompted the question of what schools are doing about the issue.
Though school-imposed restrictions on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have often gone too far, when it comes to cyberbullying schools should take a stronger response in order to protect students from the likely psychological and emotional costs of bullying.
However, school boards do not always take immediate and effective action. Many times, schools do not even have a cyberbullying policy in place.
