Cyberbullying “is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature”. Cyberbullying is a huge problem with teenagers, Cell phones and computers themselves are not to blame for cyberbullying. Social media often makes cyberbullying much easier. There are boys and girls that get bullied and cyber bullied everyday. In documents “A” “C” and “G” I will explain why I believe that schools should be allow to help limit students online speech.…
Should schools be allowed to limit students online speech? I think schools should be allowed because some student may try and take the internet to their advantage. So, what i mean by that is that student will post things on their social media and think nobody can do anything about it. Students will post things on social media about another person behind their back and before they know it they are getting bullied or being laughed at. Students or teachers can be victims of cyberbullying.…
Similarly to the traditional bullying, cyberbullying consists of an intimidator or bully and a victim. In many situations, people generally take the victim’s side, because they appear weak and powerless. I believe that cyberbullying should be better regulated and not be protected under the First Amendment. Unlike other offensive acts like flag burning that illustrates disrespect, cyberbullying inflicts psychological and emotional harm that may potentially lead victims into committing negative acts. I believe that the First Amendment should be revised to adjust to today’s social situation, especially in terms of technology.…
Another reason sutdetns online speech should be limited is students mostly cause cyberbullying. In Document B out of all of the teachers surveyed, 44.2% of them were cyberbullied by students (Document B Joint ATL). Students are not just cyberbullying other students, they are also cuberbullying teachers more than other piers. Document A says that 38.8% of 4373 10 through 18 year olds have cyberbullied others. (Document A Hinduja and Patchin)…
Elizabeth’s shirt is school-sponsored speech under the Hazelwood standard. To determine whether an activity is school-sponsored the following factors are assessed: whether or not the class was part of the school’s curriculum, whether or not the student receives a grade on the assignment, and who has the final say over the classroom material. Hazelwood Sch. Dist., 484 U.S. at 268.…
Not having a limit to students’ online freedom of speech creates cyberbully. According to document A the statistic of students that are bullies is, “ Females that are cyberbullying is 32.3 and males that are cyberbullying is 31.4”. (Document A). This study of cyberbullying shows that cyber bullying exists and the bullies are admitting they cyber bullied another person in the internet. The author states, “ School administrators concluded that K.K. had created a “hate website, “ in violation of the school policy against “harassment, bullying, and intimidation” (Document C).…
There was a time when the internet wasn’t a thing. Back in the old days, if a person wanted to bully someone would have to do it in person. Since we have the internet now, a person could bully someone with their mind and social media. Schools should limit students’ online speech because students are cyberbullied, cyberbullying causes harassment, and teachers and staff and be affected by cyberbullying too. One reason why schools should limit students online speech is that students can hurt other students’ feelings.…
Despite the freedoms students have under the First Amendment, students actually overused their first amendment rights over the past 10 years. Cyberbullying is one of the most common that students use. An example, would be a comment that students have made is “why are you alive?” Threats of violence shows how students overused their first amendment. One of the threats was to a student that they were going to shoot him.…
The First Amendment protects citizen’s rights to free speech. The First Amendment is “applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, restricts governmental interference with citizens’ free expression rights” (McCarthy, Cambron-McCabe, & Eckes, 2014, p. 93). However, students’ right to free speech in the educational setting can be limited if “the expression is likely to disrupt the educational process or collide with the rights of others” (McCarthy et al., 2014, p. 98). The Supreme Court applies the First Amendment in many cases regarding free speech. Through these various cases, the Supreme Court has established four legal principles to guide student expression rights in public educational facilities (McCarthy et al., 2014, p. 95).…
This causes the schools to feel the need to step in and try to control the problem. Here are four reasons why I believe schools should be able to limit students’ online speech. First, it is shown in document A that off of a survey done by 10-18 year olds in the southern US, 25.1% of girls have been cyberbullied in their lifetime compared to 16.6% for boys and 21.3% of girls have been the cyberbully compared to 17.5% of boys. Although also from document A, it is shown that boys are more likely to post a mean picture or video and were more likely to have cyberbullied someone within the past 30 days.…
This is all done online, which is when someone is active on the internet. A lot of the time it is the students own peers cyberbullying them. Cyberbullying can often damage a student to the point where it can damage their learning. Stating the question with key terms defined: Should schools limit students’ online speech?…
Today many teens are committing suicide because of bullying. Especially cyber bullying is a big problem in our world. Schools should not allow student online speech. Children feel bad about themselves. Teens feel bad about themselves when they go to school and get bullied.…
In this article, the author speaks about whether new laws are needed for cyberbullying or not. Billeteri quotes Gary Aubuchon when he says “By making it law rather than school board policy, we are adding an extra layer of emphasis on how important it is to protect our children at all times” (Billetteri). Also, this article speaks about violating constitutional rights with the laws that have been made against cyberbullying. In Thomas Billiterri’s “Cyberbullying”, he speaks about the laws that are set for bullying, whether or not they are unconstitutional, and can schools regulate what happens outside of the school…
So what can schools do to prevent cyberbullying? “When schools try and get involved by disciplining the student for cyberbullying actions that took place off-campus and outside of school hours, they are often sued for exceeding their authority and violating the student 's free speech right”…
Free speech in the classroom is a common debate. The first Amendment of the Constitution states that people have the right of expression and free speech. Some people believe students should be able to freely express themselves and have complete free speech in the classroom. Others believe that students should not have total free speech in school. Students should have free speech in school, but to a certain extent.…