In 2003, a 15-year-old from Trois-Rivières, Québec, dropped out of his high school after classmates found an embarrassing video of him pretending to be a Star Wars character and posted it on the Internet (Harmon, 2003). A 14-year-old from Mission , B.C., hanged herself after receiving threatening phone calls from classmates (CBC News Online, March 23, 2005).
What is cyber-bullying?
Cyber bullying: Preventing Online Harassment and Bullying
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Why BC Schools Are Always Short of Money
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Study finds $135 million shortfall in funding, traces the source.
For years B.C.'s Liberal government has been bragging about the huge amounts of money it's pumped into the system. Premier Campbell has vowed to make this the best-educated province in Canada.
Yet the schools seem insatiable. No matter how much they get, it's never enough -- even though enrollments are dropping.