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While learning online, many students received a surprising pandemic respite from cyberbullying

Thursday, September 30, 2021
The Hechinger Report

School principal Gregg Wieczorek in Hartland, Wisconsin was prepared to see a sharp increase in cyberbullying when his students migrated to online learning during spring 2020. He held conversations with employees about how to deal with a potential spike. He and his team had started strategizing how they would discipline students for their virtual behavior.

They were relieved when, in fact, the opposite happened.

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