Primary and secondary school students’ communications on internet has been increasing dramatically in number, intensity and duration in recent years. If it is used for the positive purposes, internet communication between students improves their personal, interpersonal, social, educational areas. However, misusage of internet can result in negative impacts on the school environment and students interpersonal relations at school. There are many types of misuse of internet including internet addiction, internet crimes and internet bullying among students. Internet bullying consists of swearing, false profiles and identities, writing and disseminating the artificial stories, whistle-blowing about the persons or groups whom he or she in conflict with at school, using or putting other persons’ private photographs and videos without permissions on various web sites, using other persons’ nickname, hacking the MSN mailing, teasing and threatening the groups or individuals, by finding the private MSN codes of teachers, school administrators and other students’ at school to get their private messages and using these private information on the internet media etc. For all these behaviors damage the victims to some degree, it can be called as “internet bullying”. Internet bullying behaviors of the students can cause some important negative results like conflict, violence, mobbing, bullying between the students or the students groups at school environment. All these kinds of internet bullying attitudes and behaviors among students are expected to be solved by the school administrators. Although internet bullying behaviors are generally being occurred outside the school, its negative reflections including violence, conflicts and mobbing etc. appear at school environment. The literature on internet bullying behaviors were described according to different concepts like “misuse of internet”, pathological internet use”, “internet addiction disorders”, “problematic internet use” which focus on the different points of internet usages and effects. However, the reflections of internet bullying at schools have not been examined extensively in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to determine the reflections of internet bullying behaviors of high school student at schools in Turkey based on the view of the school administrators.

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