Students at a Vermont high school are winning praise for their efforts to fight back against online bullying. After a number of negative posts last week using a new social media app, students at Rutland High School organized against the cyber-bullying.
Students petitioned the app creator to take it down and launched a "Positive Post-it" campaign, in which small notes offering praise and encouragement to fellow students and the school at large were stuck to bulletin boards and windows around the school.
The social media posts included anti-Semitic and sexual slurs.
The anti-bullying efforts drew praise Tuesday from Governor Peter Shumlin, and from John Halligan, who has been an anti-bullying activist since his son, Ryan, committed suicide in 2003 following intense online bullying by fellow middle school students in Essex.
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