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The Kids Are Sexting: How Anti-Helicopter Parent App Aims To Help
Austin, Texas, tech executive Sean Clifford’s Canopy app uses artificial intelligence to find harmful content before kids stumble on it.

Austin, Texas, tech executive Sean Clifford’s Canopy app uses artificial intelligence to find harmful content before kids stumble on it.

The students who created the list of girls' names used in the bracket — and their families — have been targeted, bullied and threatened.
"The students involved will be held accountable for their inappropriate actions," Fairfield school officials said in a message to parents.
A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled the parents met a high U.S. Supreme Court threshold to sue Cincinnati Public Schools.
Both current and former players claim they were bullied and emotionally abused by the coach.
Experts suggest that watching reality TV can cause us to be more aggressive in life and relationships.
Solution Team approach shows promise to end the cruel cycle of bullying — and put corporate trainers like Melissa Schulz out of business.
Nine young “upstanders” — kids who, armed with empathy, stand up to others who bully — say adults’ angry rhetoric sets a terrible example.
Teenager was allegedly racially bullied over three years at middle and high school.
From business and government meetings to children’s classrooms, a new form of cyberbullying is more than an unwelcome intrusion.
It Could Be Your Kid is a nonprofit with a mission to curb bullying through meaningful, relevant programming.
Hicksville schools recently kicked off a new anti-bullying initiative. Patch spoke with the district about what that entails.
A family struggled for years to find relief for their son in Reading, even after he transferred out of the public school system.
Three high school basketball stars ask a judge to let them finish the season at their transfer school after their former coach bullied them.
Dianne Grossman says a powerful lobby has halted the advancement of an anti-bullying law named for her late daughter.
In response to a Patch survey on bullying, one parent said the way her child's school handles bullying is a "joke."
Laws criminalizing bullying respond to growing frustration over the problem, but school-based prevention programs are better, No Bully says.
The mother of a Niguel Hills Middle School student was charged Tuesday and faces a year in jail for her diatribe & "A-- Whooping" tickets.
Sports officials, athletes, broadcasters and educators are coming together to end bullying in sports.
New Jersey mom vows to end LGBTQ bullying after her son Tyler Clementi’s suicide over a webcast of a sexual encounter with another man.
The Moreno Valley boy was declared "clinically dead" this week, days after he was punched at his middle school by two teens, police say.
A Frankfort mom has turned to the community after she said her daughter faced bullying in a District 157-C school.
This National Suicide Prevention Week, there are steps we can take to avoid losing another child to bullying. [COLUMN]
New government data show girls are cyberbullied three times as often as boys. Kind Campaign founders take on girl-against-girl bullying.
Ordinances developed by police could mean fines for parents who don’t get kids’ bullying behavior in check.
Bullying doesn’t just happen in the schoolyard or online. A California woman talks about what drove her to resign from a six-figure job.
Girls tend to be more passive aggressive in bullying, which makes it harder to confront. “Girls Against Bullying” video aims to change that.
Bias-based bullying is not only more difficult to confront, the effects are more profound, say North Carolina State University researchers.
“I realized this isn’t who I want to be," the boy says with wisdom beyond his years. "And so I decided to switch everything around."
To say a child can stop a bully by fighting back “makes them responsible for the assault,” an expert says. It's adults who must stand up.
A young girl was forced out of Malden Public Schools after years of bullying - and being made to feel like she was to blame.
The brother of the accused Parkland shooter tells Patch in an exclusive interview that he wants to make a difference for bullied kids.
State education officials said MPS did not provide proof it followed state law or the district's own bullying policy at Linden STEAM.
A lawsuit filed by the Grossman family on Tuesday details the bullying they say Mallory, 12, faced before she took her own life last year.
Cyberbullying is a complex issue. In a surprising number of cases, the aggressor and target are the same. It’s called “digital self-harm.”
The story of a 13-year-old girl who confronted her bullies offers lessons for parents whose kids are struggling with similar torment.
In a confounding national crisis that many consider nothing short of murder, kids are killing themselves to avoid vicious online torment.
“What a horrible thing to say: You’re ugly, kill yourself,” grieving dad says of the teens who tormented his daughter.