The University of Missouri School of Law and the Missouri Law Review will host a two-day symposium on the effects of cyberbullying among elementary and secondary students. The symposium, “Cyberbullying: Emerging Realities and Legal Challenges,” will feature an array of national experts, including keynote speaker John Palfrey, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at [...]

Smithton Middle School students raise their hands in response to a question that Tina Meier asked Tuesday afternoon during a presentation at the middle school. Meier, whose daughter Megan Meier committed suicide at age 13, spoke to over 900 Smithton Middle School students about bullying. When Tina Meier asked the students of Smithton Middle School [...]

While the U Matter Campaign happens all year long, U Matter Week is the annual kick-off of U Matter activities.  October is also National Bullying Prevention Month and Red Ribbon Week falls in the month of October.  During U Matter Week each year we bring national speakers into all of our secondary buildings for special assemblies focusing on substance abuse prevention, [...]

Parents and community members are invited to hear the Megan Meier story and learn how to protect their children against bullying and cyberbullying! Tina Meier’s presentation provides an overview of the technology that students are using in today’s world. Life is much different for students today than it was even four years ago. As parents [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — It can be a malicious rumor whispered in the hallway, a lewd photo arriving by cellphone, hands groping where they shouldn’t. Added up, it’s an epidemic — student-on-student sexual harassment that is pervasive in America’s middle schools and high schools. During the 2010-11 school year, 48 percent of students in grades [...]

I try to be careful what I say to my fellow classmates at school. I always want to come off as the one everybody likes, but lately all the bullying in the hallways has made school a battle zone. I want to say something. I try to say something, but the fear of being the [...]

If you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it online.

Bullies aren’t tough. They’re weak. Speak Up. Tell a trusted adult. You’ve got the power.

8 of 10 students say they have never spread a rumor or embarrassing pictures using the Internet, cell phone or text message.

Once it’s online, it’s out there forever.