Article: EDITORIAL - Teach cyberbullies

It does not diminish the serious problem of cyberbullying to suggest that the nation's teachers could find more useful ways of spending their time and efforts than lobbying the federal government to pass largely redundant laws against it.

That is what teachers were doing on Saturday when delegates representing the 220,000 members of the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) gathered in Moncton, N.B., for their annual general meeting. The issue foremost on their minds was not the quality of the education they impart to our children, but the problem of cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying is the Internet equivalent of school-yard taunts and intimidation, with the pushes and shoves administered ...

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