Abstract
American public schools and colleges work with law enforcement to curb bullying of almost any kind. These well-intended measures aim to protect students, yet they restrict broad categories of expression likely protected by the U.S. Constitution. With social media at their fingertips, pupils have endless ways to violate anti-bullying laws and regulations, and imposing these controls may legally harm the speaker more than it protects the psyche of the listener. We document how enforcing anti-bullying regulations in schools has done little to curb psychological problems among attendees and how it may rob them of certain opportunities to develop psychological coping mechanisms helpful to becoming functional adults.
Recommended Citation
Artem M. Joukov & Samantha M. Caspar,
Verbal Bullying in School: The Constitutional and Psychological Argument That Government Intervention Makes Things Worse,
46
S. Ill. U. L.J.
417
(2022).
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol46/iss3/1