Schools may block bullying websites

SCHOOLS may have to purchase expensive systems to block websites which allow students to engage in bullying their peers online.

The latest site to raise concern among school principals has been used by teenagers, mostly in Dublin, to spread stories about schoolmates or teenagers in neighbouring schools.

The hateboard.com site is not currently blocked by the internet security system in use by most of the country’s 4,000 primary and second-level schools. This may be because the site has not been in use here long enough to raise the attention of the system.