Students seek greater bullying policy role

Students must be given a stronger role in designing school policies about bullying, say young leaders at a school where teenagers are taking the lead to address the issue.

The student council at Drimnagh Castle, an all-boys’ secondary school in Walkinstown on Dublin’s southside, was prompted to take action on the issue by links between cyber-bullying and the deaths, by suicide, of a number of Irish teenagers in recent months.

In a video to promote their bullying awareness week, they show images relating to the stories of the teens involved and remind viewers that social networking sites were seen to play a big part.