Cyber Harassment In Schools

Schools are the mental blocks given to children at a young age to learn and grow so that they may become successful adults, but when something or someone interrupts that learning process by bullying or harassing the child, it can detrimentally affect their mental state entirely. Bullying is an intimidation technique used by a person who feels entitled or superior to another, and therefore repeatedly attacks either physically or verbally to intentionally cause harm upon the other person. While harassment is another form of intimidation, but mostly from afar and tends to not be physical, with the intent to essentially cause distress towards another. Schools globally are sometimes confused with what boundaries they can cross to ensure the safety …show more content…
For a majority of students who attend school, they do not expect to be frightened of other students or attacked verbally and possibly nonverbally because the school environment is meant to be a safety ground for students to learn and grow. The intent of staff services is to ensure the students have the correct learning domain while they complete their courses throughout the school years. Currently there are still laws being created to fit the accurate regulations for school development on the critical issue of cyber harassment during school periods. Behaviors of the students can determine the state of bullying, for instance, a student who has the appearance of frightness or sadness can be the conduct of a cyber harassment victim. These are what the visible reactions towards online harassment appears to look like on a usual students facial features after the fact that they were emotionally bullied. In the case of Rebecca Sedwick, the online article Teen Charged in Fatal Cyberbullying Case of Rebecca Sedwick to Remain in Jail, written by Alyssa Newcomb, a ABC News reporter, conveys the severity of cyber harassment victims. The story of the Sedwick case starts online, specifically on the social media application, Facebook, and two teen girls were charged with aggravated stalking towards the 12 year old student Sedwick. Allegedly 15 girls repeatedly tormented and mocked the teenager on Facebook with remarks such as, “drink bleach and die,” also telling her to kill herself while calling her ugly and threatened to “beat up” Rebecca on many occasions(Newcomb 9). The bullying was not entirely online, the proceedings reached to the point of finding the harassment to school, and one 14 year old suspect would place Rebecca’s own friends against her and if the friends did not do as she asked