Abstract
The U.S. Department of Education, individual states, and the media are focused on the need for schools to adequately address and alleviate bullying. School districts face lawsuits for failing to adequately protect students from bullying and harassment, as in the recent case resulting in the suicide of Phoebe Prince (Moreno, 2011). Phoebe was an immigrant from Ireland and committed suicide after being “bullied” at school. Her school was aware of the “bullying” and did not effectively intervene. There seems to be a pandemic issue with how schools choose to respond to bullying. It seems that “bullying” has become a term to soften the misconduct that is often occurring—harassment. Federal law specifically mandates that certain behaviors that create a “hostile and offensive” (Title XXVIIII, CFR §1604.11) environment are harassment, yet the nation and its schools continue to mislabel harassment as bullying, much like the wolf donning sheep's...
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