Our school was very strict on the use of technology for cyberbullying. If found guilty of the accusation, you are immediately suspended for three days. Social media was and probably still is a common form of commutation at our school. Clubs and groups use Instagram accounts to post on upcoming events or urgent information they need every member to know. Our own leadership class had nearly all of the popular social media platform’s accounts available. We even introduced a new postion to maintain all of our accounts updated. So when it became apparent that our ASB president and a senior class representative where cyberbullying two girls who happened to be our newly elected rally commissioners, I was out raged. They were uprising a surge of problems that where just going to create tension between two different groups. A group of supporters for the losing team, and the group who supported the elected rally commissioners. Sadly, I was put in the middle of this situation and was forced to end it to uphold the integrity of our school’s student government. It all begins at the end of our junior year. Our school elected Melissa and …show more content…
I was always mentored to go our consituatrs on a one on one stance, and talk to them directly. My problem with using social media is that you can’t use your body to communicate your thoughts. Words are just words, but the person who said them can make a huge impact. Each person has a perspective of one another. They might think highly of you, respect who you are or even they might think you’re the biggest jerk in the world. This is what makes us human, our perspective and our consness. But when we use social media nobody can see us, we surrender the idea of body language and being able to make mistakes in conversation. We no longer need to take stance on what we say. If you post something that is controversial, you simply
According to ABC news, in October 2013, bullying is on the rise. The last couple of years the news and social media have been filled with stories of bullying. Just last week, there was a story on ABC news about a fifteen year old autistic boy from Ohio, who was deceived into pouring a bucket of urine and feces on his head. The pranksters told the boy that it was for the ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) ice bucket challenge. The boy trusted the pranksters and in return he was mortified. After finding out about this story, I began to wonder what makes someone bully others. I also started to think about how my high school bullying experience was, and how I had been at both sides of bullying. I then did some research on stopbulling.gov. According
--------------Hook-------------The problem is that cyberbullying is an act that must be stopped, but putting limits on students ' online speech is unnecessary. If you are not familiar with the word Cyberbullying, it is a is when an individual is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another individual using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies.But yet again I bring the point that schools should not limit the amount of students online speech. Schools must protect students’ First Amendment rights but also maintain the learning environment and safety at school. Three main reasons why school should not limit students online speech are there is not a large percent affected, it does not cause
2:00am I woke to the sound of my phone. It must of been important perhaps family member dying; No it was thugs crank calling. 6 o’clock in the morning My voicemail was full of meticulously specific instructions on how I should kill myself, “Mix 1/2 cup of bleach with 1/2 a cup of ammonia.” I wanted to reach out for a friend so I turned on social media only to find a MySpace page with hundreds of likes devoted to a page titled “Andrew R. Anderson should die.” They fraudulently posed as my own parents and siblings. I was virtually raped. As a victim of cyber bullying, I am not alone. School bullying statistics in the United States show that about one in four kids in the U.S. are bullied on a regular basis. (“Student Reports")
Phoebe Prince is a name some of us might not know or remember, but in 2010 her name and picture were everywhere. Phoebe Prince was an Irish immigrant who moved to South Hadley, Massachusetts. In her new high school she was the subject of malicious bullying by her classmates, both at school and online. This bullying would eventually drive Phoebe to hang herself. Bullying in schools and online has become a serious problem in our country. . According to cyberbullyinghotline.com, 20 percent of those cyberbullied think about committing suicide, while 1 in 10 victims attempt it. With rates like this, the question left to be answered is, when is bullying “just kids being kids “,
Samorah Thomas Mrs. Scott Jackson Block 2 January 9, 2014. “A young man committed suicide because of all the people that bullied him. his parents are devastated,” is what you hear on your news channel. Parents are losing teens every day because of bullying. Bullying is an unwanted aggressive behavior that is repeated over time (www.stopbullying.gov ).
Words, a push, a fight, Hatred, and others, go on and on within the chain reactions of bullying.The words and all others can affect us all as beings if we’re little and young.The act of bullying is unforgivable and should be changed in advance.The problem of bullying induces the predator and attacks the victim with either verbal or physical offence. The victim can be affected in various ways, for example The bullying can affect the victim 's emotions. The Setting of bullying is mostly in schools where young children go.This definitely affects the victim. It’s a problem due to many victims are suffering emotional turmoil from it. It’s usually from a different student who chooses to enact the act of bullying towards a student.The victim
A summary of the meeting included roll call, remarks from both the superintendent and the board president. After the basic introduction the meeting continued with information updates that ranged from human relations to foundation for city schools, to the newest student representatives Abraham from Allen high school and Jamylee from Dieruff high school. It turns out that the student representatives are the newest additions to the board meetings, perhaps it’s for the students to have a voice and an ear to listen to what changes are being made. After the information ...
Over 2 billion people use the internet today. In North America, 78.6% of the 300 million people that inhabit it are users online. Some of these users are users are children, ranging from ages of 12-17. Of these children, many simply use the internet to do research, complete homework and even play games. However, a large portion of these children use these tools to threaten, harass, or gang up on other kids. This is what we call cyberbullying. The ease of communication due to a significant online advancement has helped move bullying beyond harassment at school or on the playground and into cyberspace. As a result, schools, authorities, corporate organizations and the third sector need to come together to try and alleviate the ongoing causes of cyberbullying, because it is a problem that greatly affects our children, who are the future of tomorrow.
Even though kids say that they are fine when cyberbullying occurs most of the time they are feeling bad. Why should you trust me ? Well…. you don't have to but if you trust me you can make difference we can help the kids who think cyberbullying is a freedom of speech
Bullying against teens is still happening even though there are various awareness programs to try to prevent it. I want to create awareness of bullying against teens of all religions, race, and sexual orientation. Even with the various attention to bullying, the problem still persists despite the school providing awareness, students are still afraid to say anything. Societal patterns today make bullying a difficult issue to eliminate. Starting in 2007, a total of 35 states made laws to go against bullying at school. These laws consisted of a clear definition of bullying, and how schools will be required to enforce uniform standards of conduct. The reason bullying comes as such an issue to me is because I actually know friends that have been suicidal and have caused themselves harm due to being bullied every day, in school and at home.
What is Cyber bullying? Cyber bullying is just like regular bullying but instead of bullying face to face, it’s done on the internet. In America, cyber bullying has gotten out of hand during the past year. Unfortunately kids who are bullied through the internet have a difficult time getting away from the bullying. Children today walk the street while thinking or knowing they will get picked on. This has also caused teens to commit suicide. Usually teens that are the bullies have a lower self-esteem than the person they’re bulling. Teens today use the internet more than anything excluding sleep. In two thousand and eight young teens ages 12-17 had access to the internet. Cyber bullying needs to stop before more of our children hurt themselves. Studies show that most likely a female would be the most bullied. A high percent of teens have been angry, frustrated, sad, embarrassed, scared and shockingly a small percent weren't even bothered.
As a society, we often underestimate the damages that bullying cause on children, not just America but all over, and the ones who suffer are the victims themselves. Victims are damaged with the stigma that they are weak, yet somehow have to fend for themselves against something that they have little to no control over. Whether it is for funding, a reputation or any other reason schools sweep their bullying problem under the rug or turn a blind eye, however they have more potential to end this growing issue. To the schools that think bullying is not their problem, they should know that according to heyugly.org, an anti-bullying campaign, “Approximately, 160,000 children a day stay home from school in fear of being bullied.”They also point out
For a student to have a successful education and time in highschool he student must feel comfortable in the learning environment. Schools have done a relatively adequate job in dealing with bullying that occurs at school, but it should not end there.What happens at home affects a student 's performance in school and that students attitude. Many times schools are left helpless when it comes to cases of cyberbullying and harassment on social media due to that school 's limits on its power. If a student 's attitude at school is stunted or the student is so distressed the thought of going to school is a nightmare, then the school must step in. From here, the next step is to involve the law enforcement to find a way to prosecute people who do harass or bully students on social
Problems usually have solutions. Solutions could be extremely easy to find, or the process of finding one could be problematic. One worldly issue that does not have a solution yet is bullying. Bullying is present in schools world-wide, and it has been this way since there have been schools. This horrible act is accepted as part of life. People are used to bullying, that it almost seems normal. This should not be the case. Bullying is a horrific act that needs to be stopped, but is that possible? Three specific ways people have proposed to stop bullying is to criminalize bully in an attempt to deter any further bullying, to assign bullies student mentors in order to have someone guide them, or to force school or parental figures to be more active in trying to prevent bullying. Each of these methods has its advantages and disadvantages, but which is the best method to effectively stop bullying?
Bullying has become a serious problem in public schools systems. Being a victim of bullying is a daily struggle for some students. The issue continues to grow, but the question is how to stop bullying from occurring. Many ways have been attempted to stop bullying, but some are more effective than others. Having the students get involved seems to have the most positive effect on the bullying issue in public school systems.