Summary Of Bullying Today By Shaheen Shariff

First of all, comparing in this essay is quite easier than contrasting since the only common thing here is bullying, but there are many difference between these two articles. The first article focuses on cyber-bullying outside of school hours, while the second article discusses homophobic bullying specifically in schools. These topics had been and still are very serious topics in our current day lives, and we must do whatever it takes to find proper solutions and ways in order to take control over the current situation and try to solve it completely as soon as possible.

The article “Bullying Today” by Shaheen Shariff discusses in depth the rising issue of cyber-bullying. It defines cyber-bullying and gives its characteristics in this world of technology. The digital world cyber-bullying came from is an electronic method of bullying that is very difficult to overlook because it does not happen during school hours but instead, it occurs at home either on mobile devices or personal computers. …show more content…
These technologies are giving young people access to attack other people on social media, which immediately required an urgent call for new policies on how to teach children or teenagers to respond to cyber-bullying. Not did they only contain these aspects for young people, but they also contained rules and instructions for administrators and teacher in order for them to know how to act and what their duties are to reduce or completely prevent cyber-bullying. This article also emphasizes on ways in which many schools can work alongside the police, technology providers, community organizations, and parents to provide support managements for those who are constant victims of cyber-bullying. This topic has been a

very active subject lately and is number one in almost all educational policy programs throughout the world. It is such a deep topic with so many details that we would never finish writing about it if we wanted to add more and more information to this book. In this specific article, cyber-bullying continued to develop until it became the most critiqued problem today. This resulted in furious petitions and protests. Teachers were trying to enforce a rule where a bully would get expelled, and they would ban his social networking web sites so that the school would regain control of his/her respect. The impression the world gets internationally is that the Internet gives students, whether they are teenagers or younger, too much capability which permits them to charge at their supervisors from all directions. To gain control over this, some governments are paying over millions of dollars in order to filter out technologies that give can easily be accessed by teenager in a few minutes, like social networking sites and adult chatting rooms online. On the other side of this subject, most parents and students argue that all the ways discussed in the article, whether it was filters and blocking systems, expelling or suspending students from school, or attempting to ban web sites, are completely pointless. They claimed that the schools had no right to invoke themselves in these online conversations because it violates the rights of students to freely express themselves off the school campuses. They also mention that zero-tolerance policies create poisoned and negative environments that help continue cyber-bullying instead of encouraging positivity and respectful educational environments. Also in