Did you know children are bullied and harassed on the internet every day? Sometimes these cyberbullies are not punished for their actions. The reason being, Americans have freedom of speech. Kids are not the only victims of this malign trend, teachers and school administrators are harassed as well. School administrators are having a difficult time making a policy on cyberbullying due to courts making different rulings on the subject. It is evident that kids are being bullied online, but is it within their rights to do so. Some courts are saying kids are well within their rights to speak freely on the web. For example in source number one court case Beussink V. Woodland R-IV school district ruled that school officials violated first amendment rights of a student. The judge wrote, “Disliking or being upset by the content of a student’s speech is not a good reason to limit a student’s speech under Tinker”. This court case is an example of court’s ruling in the child’s favor. The justification for this ruling is that students have freedom of speech. There are courts saying that kids have freedom of speech on the internet. There are also court’s ruling in the school districts side saying that a first amendment rights are limited. According to Warren Richey, a student created a fake Myspace page that offended the principal, they then went to court and ruled in the school districts favor. The judge wrote “though disturbing, the records indicate that the content was so outrageous that nobody took it seriously”. The student and her mother then sued the school district for violating the student’s first amendment. This case is an example of a court ruling in the schools favor. Their reasoning being that they think a student’s first amendment rights are finite. With there being cases ruling in the schools favor saying that freedom of speech is limited, there are also cases ruling in the child’s favor saying the opposite. School administrators are having a hard time making a policy on cyberbullying because courts make many different rulings concerning this subject. Sometimes they say a student is protected by the constitution. In other cases, they say otherwise. Children of the United States have almost equal rights of adults in the U.S, so are they within their rights to speak freely online?