[josephcsible]

Consider a slightly modified hypothetical: What if the bully were homeschooled or a high school dropout (with the victim still in public school)? If your answer is anything but the victim's school, then that answer applies to your original hypothetical too. If your answer is the victim's school, then you're saying that public schools can search anyone's phones (rather than just their own students' phones, which was bad enough) without a warrant just because they're accused of bullying one of their students.

[mlyle]

> What if the bully were homeschooled or a high school dropout (with the victim still in public school)?

Pure cyberbullying can be pretty bad, but it's even worse when they're in your school, and you're forced to interact with them in that regard... and they can mess with you with no oversight outside school (and deniably).

For the most part, schools would rather not try and adjudicate things that happen outside school. But the reasonable interpretation of events between students, and the most reliable remedies, can be very different based on context from outside school.