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29 May 11
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Elite school's horrific cyber-bullying case
By David Mark for PM and staff
Posted Thu May 7, 2009 6:20pm AEST
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The MySpace posting shows adolescent girls at their bullying worst. (ABC News: Giulio Saggin, file photo)
Two adolescent girls have been forced to leave one of Sydney's elite private schools because of cyber-bullying.
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The girls were taken out of Ascham School after they published material on the social networking website, My Space, containing personal and possibly defamatory information about their classmates.
The posting included information on the girls' alleged sexual proclivities, drinking, drug use and relationships.
A parent of one the girls says the girl was horrified when strange boys began approaching her in public.
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Government response
The two girls who left the school will be able to enrol in a public school.
NSW Education Minister, Verity Firth, says the year nine students would be allowed to enrol in a public school, despite the incident.
"Yes, that could very well happen, but public schools deal with it in a very similar way to how private schools do," she said.
"All school sectors deal with cyber-bullying as a serious offence, and as something that needs to be fixed. We have both disciplinary powers but we also use, as we do with all bullying, counselling powers as well."
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