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Cyberbullying: What Teachers And Schools Can Do By Caralee Adams

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The article “Cyberbullying: What Teachers and Schools can do by Caralee Adams”, depict the many facets involving cyberbullying as it relates to schools. While this article lends itself to multiple components of the cyberbullying topic, this paper will focus on student perception and determining what schools can do to address Cyberbullying. In February of 2010 approximately 4000 students between the ages of 10 and 18 were surveyed on their perception of the bullying issue. Survey results showed that students felt the most hurtful means of bullying resulted in rumors and hurtful comments posted via Facebook, text messages and other means of social media. Girls have a 9% increase in cyberbullying experiences than boys. Girls have a tendency to use social media to spread rumors whereas boys are more likely to post videos. (Cyberbullying Research Center). …show more content…

Cyberbullying often times occur at night on the weekends, but the effect of such bullying can permeate within the school building having a negative impact on the educational environment. Some students are so concerned with cyberbullying that they are unable to focus and study. "Monday is the new Friday, it used to be that hurtful interactions built up over the week and would blow up on Friday. Now when kids go back to school on Monday, they are upset because of what happened online over the weekend. There's no longer time to calm down." (Nancy Willard, director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) To assist in combatting cyberbullying, schools are developing policy and implementing the policies in the form of district-wide student conduct documents. School are also partnering with national and state legislation to assist in structuring policies. Schools are offering training to staff and parents to aide in cyberbullying

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