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Classroom Bullies On The Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lord-of-the-flies dept.

peter303 writes "Oldtimers are familiar with sociopaths in usenet newsgroups and chat rooms. The NY Times has an article about grade school kids who bully on the Internet. These include message bombing and slanderous web pages. The web allows one to extend bad manners from real life."

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  1. Re:Different From The Old Days by wolenczak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While in highschool back in 1995 a kid was spoofing my account and abusing some root exploits, it was a VT100 console, by that time every computer at the lab had an static IP address that matched a number written on sticker in the screen. Got his IP address, took a look at who was at the computer, and literaly I walk towards him, grabbed him from the neck and kicked his ass out of the lab.

    I was prohibited to enter the lab for the rest of the term, but he was kicked out of school.

  2. Re:Real world should have consequences too by dasmegabyte · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That grass did cost $18 mil. I'd rather see 250,000 people choking the sidewalks and subways of NYC, anyway. Problem here is that they all want to get together. That's stupid -- if you get all of your ideas in one place, it's much easier to ignore. Split up into 25,000 groups of ten and stand on the sidewalks all over NYC. This would be a protest to be proud of.

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    Hey freaks: now you're ju
  3. Re:Different From The Old Days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A little twist here...

    I was prohibited to enter the lab for the rest of the term, but he was kicked out of school.

    Basically, the kid doing the hacking got no punshment but the violence (you) was dealt with harshly.

    I see the same exact thing with my kids in school. My kids get picked on (as do many other kids). Some examples.. some kids forcably took my sons MP3 player from him and would not give it back, eventually they did but the headphones were broke. They took his shoe and pulled the laces out, stuck gum in his hair etc... For a 12 year old, that type of abuse is hard to handle. He refused to get up in the morning, did not want to go to school, claimed he was sick etc.. After numerous attempts of my trying to deal with the situation in a logical and mature manner by dealing with the guidance office abd principal, absolutely nothing had changed. Finally at a conference with the prinicipal and my son, I told my son to get out of his seat from the bus, calmly walk up to the offender and punch the SOB right in the face as hard as he could and if the kid got up, do it again in the stomache or in the nuts by any means possible. I had to resort to barbaric fighting to solve my sons emotional stress. The principal bluntly stated that he was going to put that in his record that I stated that and if anything like that happened, my son would be immediately expelled and charged. Funny how the school can allow and do nothing about any amount of mental abuse but physical abuse is dealt with immediately. I do not really know how they can deal with mental abuse issues but neither did they. After attempting to resolve the situation I finally provided my own a method that I know would work. The confidence he gained from that talk and further talks about the subject allowed him to stand up to the groups of kids without actually having to "fight" it out.

    I'm sure many here will never agree to fighting and honestly I do not either but I can tell you the mental abuse a picked on child and their parents have to deal with is 1000x worse then a bully with a bloody nose. It is far better to snap early and use fists then to wait and bottle up the pain until they do something far worse. Too bad the school system does not think that way and could not provide any guidance.