Cyberbullying: Incredibly Targeted Teen Community

Throughout all of education’s history there has always been issues with one particular trait that some students or children carry. Bullying. Bullying over the course of the years still plays a role in the education system. Although the form of bullying has changed from the past to now, it still has an effect on students within the school systems. In the past there was the physical form of bullying where “jocks” would push the “nerds” into lockers or their books out of their hands. Another typical term used by bullies that anybody can recognize is, “give me your lunch money,” but bullying has evolved over the year. I believe that bullying now has more of an emotional impact on students and it’s mostly verbal. Social media plays a huge role in bullying as well, so what can teachers do in order to stop cyberbullying or bullying in general?

  Did you know that nearly 1 in 3 teens have admitted to being a victim of cyberbullying? That’s an absurdly large number of teens! But what really is cyberbullying anyway? Well, the Cyberbullying Research Center defines it as “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices”. Congresswomen Linda Sanchez is currently sponsoring a bill that would make bullying through an electronic means a federal crime and I wholeheartedly support it! Individuals should definitely be prosecuted for statements made on social media.

3) The Teaching Staff, teaching staff should intervene at the first sign of any bullying, they must keep records of all incidents that happen involving children in their class, if they see another child from another class being bullied or bullying they should immediately inform that childs class teacher so they can intervene and monitor the situation. Teachers routinely liase with each other through staff meetings and discuss existing or new anti-bullying strategies.

When there is such a rise in social media, people are able to say what they want because they feel safer than they would in person, which can lead to a rise in cyber-bullying.

Bullying is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

Bullying has become a larger issue in schools across the nation. Schools have noticed the pattern that bulling takes place on their campus. School districts are trying to decrease the amount of bulling by creating anti-bulling programs, teaching students respectful manners, and create fun methods to keep positive attitude.

Cyberbullying is an epidemic that can effect anyone. It is a disease that is spreading more rapidly every day and is costing us our most precious resource, our children.

There are many strategies to discourage and prevent bullying. The three suggestions that stuck out to me the most were giving a bullying quiz, mixing up a lunch day, and watching a movie. Mixing up a lunch day refers to the idea of encouraging students to step out of their comfort zones and to sit with new students. This generates a friendly environment which helps stop early clichés from forming. The third idea is watching the movie, “Bullied.” The movie illustrates the perspective of bullying by the person being bullied and the negative effects that bullying causes. The theme of the movie is to end bullying and to encourage students to care for their fellow classmates. Overall, the bullying quiz is a best choice to prevent bullying, because it is a way to focus on a subject matter, and show students the importance of the information. Testing is a great

Cyberbullying is a highly controversial topic in the United States. Some believe it is a criminal act, and others believe it is typical behavior among kids. Despite the many different opinions, cyberbullies should not be persecuted for the insults put on social media.

It often takes the form of threats, intimidation, repeated cruelty, and/or forcing someone against his or her will to do what the bully wants (Linsin, Bullying In The Classroom: The Ultimate Guide To Stopping It, 2011). One common goal for all teachers is to make sure you are protecting each students right to learn. It is important to know your school’s policy on bullying, so you will be able to relate it to the students and the parents. Also, every school has their on policy you have to abide by.

OAlthough evidence shows that young people overall spent their time on social media websites, exposure to cyberbullying in young people expanded with age. Twenty one percent of 14-15 year old detailed having been cyberbullied, contrasted with four percent of eight to nine year old. Reported encounters of cyberbullying among 10-17 year olds seems stable since 2009, however has gradually expanded for the most youthful age group (eight to nine year olds). Parental attention to cyberbullying is generally high, except for guardians of 16-17 year olds. The larger part of the individuals who have been cyberbullied informed somebody and did something concerning it. Children and young people up to the age of 15 years old were most likely confess in their parents, and those matured 16-17 years were similarly prone to tell a friend as a parent.

The Chapter 13 article emphasizes that teachers hold the key to change through successful prevention and treatment of bullying. Teachers are essential where their own behavior and interactions with students are critical to enhance their development. In order to eradicate or prevent bullying, teachers need to be aware and recognize that bullying is a serious problem. Although appropriate action is taken when bullying occurs, this topic will continue to be a painstakingly issue to solve.

There has been a case of cyberbullying at a high school in Mason City, Iowa. Recently in the Mason City High School a freshman got permission to go to prom. Even though freshmen aren’t allowed to go to prom, and it strictly says that in the handbook they can’t. The freshman went to the school board and got permission to go. This made the upperclassmen angry, and they took that anger to social media. They went on Twitter and started cyberbullying her. They were saying cruel things about her, and they tagged her in the post to make sure she would see it. This cyberbullying isn’t as extreme as the one Rebecca faced. They never threatened her life or told her to kill herself because she gets to go to prom, but nevertheless it was still cyberbullying.

This article describes all about cyberbullying. It tells you what cyberbullying is and how you can help stop it. “Cyberbullying” is credible because of the abundance of information that is in the article, and because of all of the references too. This article is similar to the the other two articles that I cited because it talks all about the issue of cyberbullying, and it talks about ways that you can help be a part of the solution. This is different from the other articles because it talks more about what cyberbullying is and a bunch of facts about it, and less about the issue right now. The audience for this article is anyone who is curious about online harassment, or anyone who wants to try to help stop bullying because of issues they have been in or seen in their own life. This is perfect for my essay because it shows a lot of information that I can use to better understand my topic.

Bullying is a big issue in the world these days. It is our job as teachers to address this issue in our classroom and teach children that bullying is not ok.