Mass. principal lashes out at Twitter bullies

WWLP ^ | 02/26/2015 | John Atwater

[Responsibility2nd]

WINCHENDON, Mass. (CNN) – A school principal in Massachusetts is issuing a warning to cyber bullies calling them cowards and promising to find and punish them. This, after about two dozen students became targets of bullies online.

“I went with a strong message partly to be proactive about it,” said Joshua Romano, Murdock Middle High Principal.

The passionate message to students was direct and forceful to the pathetic cowards who chose to start and participate in this, “You are warned. I am coming for you and I am furious.”

“I wanted to make it clear that I wasn’t going to rest until I know who had done this and there were consequences for doing this,” said Romano

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“I hate sniveling, cowardly behavior like this. I have more respect for insurgents I fought in Iraq than I do for people behind this twitter account.”

“Probably shouldn’t have said that. A little harsh. But you know, just trying to convey the seriousness of the situation,” said Romano.

[Responsibility2nd]

Bullies. Are schools are full of bullies.

Adult bullies.

[MeganC]

Sounds to me like the principal is making terrorist threats on the Internet.

“I am coming for you”

[FredZarguna]

The principal is a bag full of jackass, who needs to educate himself in the law before he costs the taxpayers millions of dollars for violating the students' First Amendment rights under color of authority.

If he had consulted his lawyer or the school district's solicitor, he would have been informed that he has no authority to take any action for the exercise of free speech that occurs outside of school unless the activity results in a substantial disruption during school hours.

And he would also have been informed that "cyber bullying" does not usually meet that standard.