Online Bullying In Schools Essay

Online Behavior off Campus Today we have all types of social media accounts. Social media was intended for people to be able to communicate with friends and family throughout the world, but the way some students use it should be prohibited. Online bullying is a subject that is affected throughout the world. Students from the age of twelve to eighteen, are there bullying other students. These students are then weak inside, which leads to them having suicidal thoughts. Those students then harm themselves, causing pain in their loved ones. But what if all of that could be prevented by schools monitoring student’s behavior online? Would the rate of cyberbullying actually go down? Or would it stay the same? June 27, 2010 a situation occurred at a middle school in the state on New Jersey. A twelve year old boy had been sexually harassing a girl over the weekend. When parents found out they brought it to the principles attention, but the principle couldn’t do anything about the situation. He reported to the New York Times magazine that “This occurred out of school…We can’t discipline him.” (Orsini) What the parents didn’t know was that the schools were not allowed to do anything about a cyber-attack. In 2010 the “Cyberbullying Research Center” some researchers found that cyber bulling was a dangerous harm that happens in “one in five” middle school students. But how will educators be able to handle the pressure of …show more content…
In research I found out that only six states prohibit “cyberbullying” while twenty eight prohibit “electronic harassment.” But even with these laws, only ten of them actually have polices that would allow the faculty to go through any social media accounts of any students. So with that the rest of the states are still having to have their students report situations in order for them to be corrected and