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Dbq Cyber Bullying Research Paper

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“We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say” said the comedian Tracy Morgan. And he was correct. In this modern world today, numerous students abuse the First Amendment. Over the media, students are posting comments, videos, stories, etc. about other students and teachers. These students are cyberbullies. The schools should be allowed to limit students’ online speech because cyber bullying privacy and dignity are important, it hurts feelings, and affects the school. Many people might believe that the cyberbullying isn’t really that big of a deal. In a Survey of British School Teachers, about 85% of the teachers hadn’t been affected by student cyberbullying (Document B). For the small 15%, is it practical to limit the speech of student, when 85% isn’t even affected? This argument is almost completely valid, almost. The 15% lost their dignity and privacy. In a cartoon by Jimmy Margulies, it shows a principal asking a teacher “what’d [the students] steal this time… credit cards… bank accounts… Social Security numbers?” (Document E). The teacher replies by saying, “Privacy and dignity” (Document E). This demonstrates that the 15% lost valuable things by getting cyber bullied because in the cartoon, dignity and privacy is given the same status as SSNs and …show more content…

In the Survey of British School Teachers, 38.6% of the teachers that had been bullied said that it “reduced [their] confidence and self-esteem” (Document B) and 25% said that it “made [them] ill or stressed…” (Document B). This tells us that cyber-bullying can produce drastic effects because the teachers got sick and/or got stressed. In the same survey, 19.3% of the teachers said that it “affected [their] home life” (Document B). This tells us that the bullies really go deep because if something is troubling a person even at home, then it must be really big. Cyberbullying and all other types of bullying hurts it victims really

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