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Victims Without Legal Remedies: Why Kids Need Schools To Develop Comprehensive Anti-Bullying Policies, Robert S. Salem

Robert S Salem

Bullying, or peer harassment, as it is often referred to, continues to confound educators, legislators, lawyers, public health advocates and others who are committed to quality education in an atmosphere free from violence and intimidation. This article helps to explain why solutions to this problem remain elusive and offers some practical suggestions to improve conditions for all schoolchildren. The authors highlight the inadequacies of existing legal remedies for victims of peer harassment and focus on methods to prevent bullying. In addition to broad recommendations, the authors make specific recommendations to counter three prevalent fact patterns in peer harassment that are …