Cyberbullying In School

Bullying is defined as any behavior that is aimed at hurting another person or a group of people. Bullying may happen in many different forms that may include hitting, name calling, undermining or threatening a person, or spreading rumors about someone. Bullying normally happens more than just once and tends to intimidate, threaten, or embarrass the involved victim or victims. Bullying can happen anywhere including home, school, or online. It is important to note that repeated bullying may lead to both negative emotional and physical impacts on the victim or victims involved in the bullying, which may even result in suicide (Hertz, 2013).
According to Donegan (2012), Bullying is a crime that has been in the American society for a very long time. It is rooted in the country’s competitive social hierarchy and a capitalistic economy that existed in the past and is still a significant problem at the …show more content…
School administrations should not only punish the perpetrators of cyberbullying in their schools but should also encourage their students to use technology responsibly. This can even be useful when the students graduate, because cyberbullying is not perpetrated by students alone, but is also perpetrated by criminals outsides the school environment.
The important stakeholders that should be involved in promoting the eradication of bullying include students, their teachers, school administrators, and the parents. These are the main inside stakeholders that should play the leading role in seeing to it that bullying both in schools and the community at large is eliminated or reduced. Teachers, school administrators, and parents would play a major role in this fight because of their come in contact the at-risk victims more