“70% of student’s report seeing frequent bullying online” (“cyberbullying facts” 2). I think that this is sad that so many kids see other kids being bullied every day. I believe that cyberbullying is not okay and that we need to put a stop to it. According to “cyberbullyingfacts” cyberbullying is defined as a young person tormenting, threating or embarrassing other young person using the internet or other technologies, like cell phones. The psychological and emotional outcomes of cyberbullying are similar to those of real-life bullying. The difference is, bullying ends at school (cyberbullying), there is no escape. When kids are getting cyberbullied they feel bad about themselves. Many may drop out of school, or if it gets too bad, kids may
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Although I believe that schools should get involved when cyberbullying occurs, there are also many reasons why schools should not get involved when this occurs. Many people think when schools get involved they are violating students first amendment right of freedom of speech, meaning any person has a right to his or her opinion and may say whatever they are thinking online. For example, people who are against school punishment for cyberbullying think students have the right to say whatever they want on social media even if it offends someone and hurts someone else. It could be positive or negative and they won’t get in to trouble even if it is online. They have the right to do so. According to “Schools should not interfere with student speech off campus” the speech needs to substantially interfere with the discipline at school (1). Sometimes it is difficult to determine if cyberbullying is interfering at school. Another reason schools shouldn’t interfere is because many people think when cyberbullying occurs it is usually off …show more content…
Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online (“cyberbullying” 1). This is almost half of teens which is startling. About 25% have been bullied more than one time which shows that cyberbullying is not a one-time thing. One out of ten students will tell a trusted adult that the cyberbullying is happening. When students can’t tell trusted adults, they feel scared and don’t know what to do. Many kids may end up committing suicide (cyberbullyingfacts” 2-4). For example, bullying victims are two to nine times more likely to consider committing suicide than anyone else for whatever reason (“cyberbullyingfacts” 4). In the Phoebe Prince case she committed suicide because she was getting tired of getting cyberbullied constantly. The students at South Hadley School in Massachusetts were constantly bullying Prince, they were relentless with their verbal assaults, and gender specific verbal torture which is sexual harassment. As a federal law forbids gender discrimination this lead her to commit suicide, now lawmakers are working to explain why a law hasn’t been passed for anti- bullying and are working to make this a law (federal law requires schools to protect children from cyberbullying).Therefore, when kids get cyberbullied they feel so bad about themselves that they feel the need to commit suicide, so schools need to step up and help put an
Although I believe that schools should get involved when cyberbullying occurs, there are also many reasons why schools should not get involved when this occurs. Many people think when schools get involved they are violating students first amendment right of freedom of speech, meaning any person has a right to his or her opinion and may say whatever they are thinking online. For example, people who are against school punishment for cyberbullying think students have the right to say whatever they want on social media even if it offends someone and hurts someone else. It could be positive or negative and they won’t get in to trouble even if it is online. They have the right to do so. According to “Schools should not interfere with student speech off campus” the speech needs to substantially interfere with the discipline at school (1). Sometimes it is difficult to determine if cyberbullying is interfering at school. Another reason schools shouldn’t interfere is because many people think when cyberbullying occurs it is usually off …show more content…
Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online (“cyberbullying” 1). This is almost half of teens which is startling. About 25% have been bullied more than one time which shows that cyberbullying is not a one-time thing. One out of ten students will tell a trusted adult that the cyberbullying is happening. When students can’t tell trusted adults, they feel scared and don’t know what to do. Many kids may end up committing suicide (cyberbullyingfacts” 2-4). For example, bullying victims are two to nine times more likely to consider committing suicide than anyone else for whatever reason (“cyberbullyingfacts” 4). In the Phoebe Prince case she committed suicide because she was getting tired of getting cyberbullied constantly. The students at South Hadley School in Massachusetts were constantly bullying Prince, they were relentless with their verbal assaults, and gender specific verbal torture which is sexual harassment. As a federal law forbids gender discrimination this lead her to commit suicide, now lawmakers are working to explain why a law hasn’t been passed for anti- bullying and are working to make this a law (federal law requires schools to protect children from cyberbullying).Therefore, when kids get cyberbullied they feel so bad about themselves that they feel the need to commit suicide, so schools need to step up and help put an