The Rise of Cyber Bullying

santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about! Examples include rumor spreading typically via text messaging, threatening emails, invasive pictures taken with camera phones, and the most extreme - creating entire websites to criticize/threaten/harass another student. The article suggests many tips for combating the problem - chief among them being the establishment of specific school policies. I suppose this is another example of an inevitable downside to the interconnected world. Mandatory Google search for your added reading pleasure."

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The really funny thing is...

[Mr. Troll]

I could see this story happening another way.....a school invokes a policy where cruely making fun of another student would result in suspension......then a day later, we would have that little mouth taped up fellow icon detailing a story of how some stupid American school was stealing kids' free speach.

Oh, and I'm sure the Bush admin would get blamed somehow too.....

I AM THE VICTIM

[Gigant0r]

I got kicked out of school for making a webpage about a class mate who had his website here on slashdot once. I don't regret it because I still think it was totally hilarious and that he was a nerd, and that's what's really important to me.

This is all the fault of Parents

[Spl0it]

Parents these days (not all but enough of them) do not provide their own kids with the instruction, guidance and a loving home that children need. All the bullies at my school were kids with bad home lives, or poor role models / un-educated parents. As for the kids being teased, instead of waiting for the end of school why not be proactive, use the insults as fuel to get in better shape, or to practice sports so you can join a sports team and fit in better. If you don't want to play sports or get in shape, find something else to do with another group from the school. I think the best thing a teased kid can do with the insults and/or threats is use them as fuel.

Fuel to get better at ...

Those violent gun episodes in schools where a bullied kid attacks another student is not only the fault of the bully but the fault of the victum and his parents. The victum for failing to think of the consiquences and for failing to turn the negative situation into positive. The parents fault for failing to notice the childs obvious problems and as well they're inability to instill values and morals into their own childs character. The other half of the problem relies on the bully and his/her parents. Where are they? if the school or other parents have contacted them why havn't they resolved this situation, and morally the bully has to understand what bully'ing is like... maybe his parents should bully him for a day and teach him a lesson? open his eyes? I'm not sure? but I think at least 60% of the blaim is on the parents (both victum and agressor) and the rest lay on the children.