A 14 year old girl, named Alex, experienced cyberbullying. Her classmates had created a fake Facebook profile for her and posted racist videos, left derogatory comments her friends' profiles, and participated in other acts of cyberbullying. Since school officials and the police refused to help her because the bullying "occured off campus," Alex decided to sue her classmates.
The article states that in cases like these, judges have a difficult time with deciding whether or not students have the right to free speech outside of school.
I think that the school should have taken action and punished the students who were involved with cyberbullying. If enough attention was given to the punishment for cyberbullying, then it might discourage other students from bullying their peers online. The school needs to realize that words are harmful - no matter what the idiom "sticks and stones..." says. Thus, as long as students know that they can get away with it, cyberbullying will continue.
I really feel bad for Alex ,cyber bullying is increasing and i hope authorities who are responsible for making rule and regulation will consider cyber bulling is crime and do something about it.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like schools are really trying to put social media at arm's length as not their responsibility to monitor bullying.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the school and the parents of the bullies should take responsibility for these actions. The school should definitely put more effort to monitor the students because the parents have put their trust in these school to watch over their child, also if the school learn how to deal with these type situation a little more to prevent it from continuing. For the parents of these bullies, they should understand this type of issue and help with it because if the situation was turned around I'm sure they would've wanted that some help and respect from the other parent.
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