Eric was constantly under pressure and anxiety since the early days of grade school. In order to prevent school bullies from talking to Eric on the web, his father and mother decided that it would be best to put a family safety filter on the computer. This filter was designed to keep the computer users off of websites that are potentially malicious and include vulgar language. Even though Eric’s parents set up these filters, it did not do anything to block the bullying that Eric was encountering through his email. A group of school bullies found out what his email was and began to send hate email with malicious content such as: “Go kill yourself loser” and “You are so stupid”. Eric’s parents had no idea that this was happening. Even at school, the bullies would not leave Eric alone. They would make fun of Eric at lunch, in class, and even during recess. Eric decided one day that this bullying problem had to stop. So after school, he went to the office and had a talk with school counselor and showed her the hate emails he had been receiving from the bullies. The three bullies were expelled from Jacobson Elementary the following day, and Eric has never faced another problem with a bully ever again.
Cyberbullying is becoming a major issue that is causing lots of problems in today’s society. Joseph Wright, a pediatrician at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. says that: “By the third grade, 75% of kids have been exposed to bullying, the majority as bystanders” (USA Today, 1).The parents should keep in constant contact with their children so that they would know when something isn’t quite right with their children. Did you know that only 1 in 10 teens tell their parents if they have been a cyberbully victim...
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Cyberbullying has become a widespread problem. The more people have been using the internet, the more the number of cyberbullying incidents increase. According to document A, 25.1% of girls and 16.6% of boys reported being bullied in their lifetime. In addition to this, document A also
Jamie Nabozny is gay. Today the fact causes him few, if any, difficulties in life, however, throughout middle and high school Nabozny was both physically and verbally harassed; he was beaten, kicked, urinated on, called hurtful terms and abused to the point of hospitalization. However, the worst part of this innocent victim’s abuse was the role that his administration played, or rather refused to play; no action was taken to protect Nabozny despite the fact that school officials knew what was going on and had been repeatedly confronted about his abuse. In time the abuse Nabozny suffered led to doleful moods, severe depression, attempts of suicide, endeavors to run away from home, and other drastic consequences. Eventually, this young vigilante decided to fight back in order to prevent others from experiencing what he had gone through. Nabozny took legal action and, with the help of Lambda Legal Law firm, sued his former school officials for their failure to do their job of keeping him safe in school, eventually winning nearly a million dollars in a monetary settlement. Jamie Nabozny’s case has inspired the response of countless others and forced schools to take responsibility for their actions in bullying cases, because of this role model’s singular determination and readiness to stand up for himself, he has affected and inspired millions. Proving, once and for all, that one person can make a difference.
Moreover, cyberbullying has longer effects through a child’s life, leading the victims to turn into victim-bullies (Donegan 1). Victim bullies take their own frustrations on bullying others as an escape to help them cope with their pain caused by cyberbullying. In addition, it’s been reported that bullies commit at least one crime as an adult whereas victim-bullies commit a 23 percent higher than of the bullies (Donegan 4). Konnikova doesn’t mention that bullies also need help as much as the victims, but not all bullies are born that way. In fact, most of them have been bullied before or they have psychological problems (Donegan 5). Indeed, people should take this statistics as a wakeup call to help cyberbullies to cope with their frustrations to lower the numbers of victims, to create a better childhood, and a healthier adolescence for a better
There are over 2,405,518,376 internet users on a global scale. More than 50% of the world has a form of Internet censorship, and of those countries China, North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam heavily restrict its citizens. This recent topic has reached new heights in the US with the growing number of internet access. More and more people are debating whether the internet should be censored. Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the internet.
With this unfortunate circumstance, schools need to put a stop to bullying. Informing the school and the community on the issue of bullying is the first step in ending it. To continue, the next is to make rules that will prevent kids from wanting to bully other students. Also, creating an anti-bully committee and a bullying report office in schools will help reduce bullying. With cyber bullying being so difficult to detect, we inform parents and students about safe internet use and ask parents to monitor their child internet usage. Bullying is
If they do not help their teenagers with safety tips on the Internet there could be many negative consequences. According to The Editorial Board, “Parents remain the first line of defense against cyberbullying. Too many, however, ignore their children 's online behavior, deny that their kids could be bullies, or are themselves models for this harmful behavior. The stepmother of the 14-year-old charged with bullying Rebecca was charged last week with child abuse over allegations that she punched two boys visiting her home”. This illustrates the importance of parents’ role in a teenager’s activity on the Internet. In this occasion Rebecca’s 14-yeaar-old cyberbully had actually been bullied by her stepmother. This could have been the cause of Rebecca’s bullying since her cyberbully perhaps was bullied by her own
Online education in the twenty-first century is very prevalent. Not only can you receive a college degree online, but now there is the opportunity for children kindergarten through twelfth grade, to stay at home and complete courses online. One parent thought this would be the best decision for her daughter, Kelsey Hooten, who was being bullied everyday in school by her classmates. Kelsey is now enrolled in “a charter school affiliated with the national education company K12” (Pant 8). Because of the technological advancements made with video chats, computers and education students everywhere are able to be continue schooling with online teachers. Kelsey was able to escape the public school at which she was being bullied and her mother said that “the change in her personality was almost immediate” (Pant 64). By giving kids the ability to escape from the torments of bullying, the victims’ world changes. The effects of bullying can sometimes be physical, but they are also psychological. Studies have shown that victims of bullying are more likely to become violent, depressed or have anxiety issues. In addition, there is the possibility of neurological scarring. This would result from the traumatic experiences of bullying, such as harassment, ostracization, or physical abuse. The scarred tissue wou...
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The purpose of this report was to prove that Internet censorship has a detrimental effect on society. The governments and groups practicing censorship say they can justify the use for certain purposes, but use censorship frequently for many more personal reasons. Censorship has many different implementations and can be used in several different facets of the Internet, but instilling the fear of being censored is the most effective censorship tool governments can use. The public has grown accustomed to the Internet as a resource and tool and has fought tirelessly against its restriction and limitation. Censoring the Internet is not very morally sound, as it harms the users of the Internet far more than it may help them. Censorship restricts the knowledge - and therefore the potential - of its victims.
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Adults are easily accessible to the goods and bads on social media, compared to children that are less capable to realize what is convenient for them. As a result, children have become victims of cyberbullying via social media. One of the major problem of cyberbullying had to do with the fact that “[t]he Internet provides more than ample opportunities for children to bully one another anonymously. Kids can embark on impressive and terrifying bullying campaigns, drawing in dozens of other completely anonymous children. Even a child who never does anything risky online is at risk of being bullied”, (Woda,2015, p.32). Children are expose to more cyberbullying in social media than in their normal everyday lives. According to Woda Tim, (2015) “a 2013 Pew Research Center study, indicates that 20.8 percent of kids ages eight to ten report that they have been cyberbullied at least once in their life, while 88 percent of social media-using teens say they have witnessed someone being mean or cruel on a social media site”, (32). Parents should focus more when their kids are using phones or computers in the house and it should use in public areas of the house, where parents can be aware of what their kids are doing in social media. They must use a “Parental intelligence” with their children and know that kids are the more vulnerable to be involved in cyberbullying. It is painful to see how everyday in the news kids are committing
According to Jaana Juvonene, between 50 percent and 70 percent of the teenagers between 12 and 17 years of age have experienced bullying and threats on the Internet. According to another study, only 10% of those who have suffered bullying informed an adult about the experiences (Juvonene). The percentage of those teenagers who actually told an adult is a very scary number in a world filled with violence and hate. Parents who monitor their teenagers’ internet usage have a much better chance of being aware of these occurrences and have the opportunity to advise and assist the teenagers in decisions on how to handle the situation both physically and