Does your district have a policy for this?

Earlier this week, the AP reported on a case of a middle school girl in Thibodaux, Louisiana, who was ongoingly bullied by boys at her school with AI-generated nudes. When the school ongoingly did not deal with it, she and others fought one of the boys on a school bus. She was kicked out of school; the boys did not face consequences from the district, 'though it appears that they are facing legal consequences now.

Two things: 

1. The responses of administrators in this story are maddening:
   "At the disciplinary hearing, the girl’s attorney asked why the sheriff’s deputy didn’t check the phone of the boy the girls were accusing and why he was allowed on the same bus as the girl. “Kids lie a lot,” responded Coriell, the principal. “They lie about all kinds of things. They blow lots of things out of proportion on a daily basis. In 17 years, they do it all the time. So to my knowledge, at 2 o’clock when I checked again, there were no pictures.”
   
   The superintendent commented that "a “one-sided story” had been presented of the case that fails to illustrate its “totality and complex nature.”
   
   After an appeal to the school board to get her back into her school:
   “She’s already been out of school enough,” one of the girl’s attorneys, Matt Ory, told the board on Nov. 5. “She is a victim.
    “She,” he repeated, “is a victim.”
    Martin, the superintendent, countered: “Sometimes in life we can be both victims and perpetrators.”
   
   
   
2. I continue to see headlines of districts passing what they appear to be calling "an AI policy."
   One policy? Really?
   Because unless you've gone through your policies and found all of the places where AI could impact district operations, this isn't covered in policy. Did you consider the above in your bullying policy? 

As I am typing this, I am seeing AFT President Randi Weingarten attempt to defend her position on AI on Bluesky: 

We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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— Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 (@rweingarten.bsky.social) December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM

They can't.