"The ruling also shows how hard it can be for schools to balance increasingly high expectations of safety and also increasingly high standards of respect for students, said Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor of education at McGill University and director of Define the Line, an online resource about cyberbullying, education and law.
"Because of the various challenges that schools are confronting nowadays, they're trying to implement safety measures without understanding students' rights and responsibilities or their own responsibilities to students," she said, adding there needs to be better legal literacy in the education system and better consultation with students."
- Date Published:02/25/2015
- Original Publication:The StarPhoenix