What is Cyberbullying?

At some point in ones life they probably encountered a troubled person, Usually known as a “bully”, the one who tears down one's self, mentally and physically. Online, bullies have access to many platforms to find their victims and harass them. A study showed that about 10 to 20 percent that youths experience the most bullying and victims are more likely to have a low self esteem and turn to substance abuse. Because of the tremendous effect on cyberbullying, young children and teenagers are harming themselves and even turning to suicide; by telling a trusted adult or reporting the bully, we can out a stop to cyberbullying.

A leading cause of to cyberbullying is the advancement of technology which gives bullies a wider reach of people to prey on. Having an account on an online platform can make you anonymous, meaning not being able to be traced. A study showed that 17% of fake accounts have been used to “act mean to people and not get into trouble” a source showed. It is very easy to tear a person's self esteem. There are thousands of cases of young kids and teenagers turning to substance abuse and other things to harm their bodies. That one person hurting another for the joy of it makes the other person feel like they are nothing and a nobody. With the new source of technology, David Zhao says, “Cyberbullying is a new issue, it's no longer about horseplay and physical punches inside the school.” “Its abuse 24/7”. While there is easy access to the internet, numbers have been climbing dramatically.

Addressing a person online as a bully is one thing but putting a end to it, is another thing. Schools across the country have been trying to find soe way to punish a kid who is caught in the act of bullying. A research has shown the students who fear punishment “Are less likely to torment their classmates” than those who don't fear punishment. When witnessing another person being harassed and being slammed for something , you should report it and tell a trusted adult. Also reporting the account that is doing the harm. Letting one keep taking advantage of another is wrong and should be stopped. “One who is caught in this act should be looked into by the platform which was used” according to Allison Denisso. Witnessing someone get bullied online and reporting it is key to stopping a bully from finding more victims.

While reporting someone getting bullied is one thing, the punishment to the bully is more important, and should be pushed more. Schools are now trying to pass rules on how to punish these bullies. Edwin states that “courts have already determined that schools have the right to punish students for off campus behavior.” It is key that the bully gets punished so they quit doing such things. Also I think both school and law get involved when this problem occurs. Parents should also be disciplining their kids, such as taking away their device they were using.

Cyberbullying is a big problem throughout the country. Catching onto it and putting a stop to it will help out thousands of kids from being hurt. No parent wants to see their own child suffering. Cyberbullying has led to people to turn to substance abuse and even suicide. Because of the tremendous effect on cyberbullying, young children and teenagers are harming themselves and even turning to suicide; by telling a trusted adult or reporting the bully, we can out a stop to cyberbullying.

Works Cited

DeNisso, Alison. ""Addressing cyberbullying in and out of school."" District Administration, Dec. 2013, p. 18. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A353319530/OVIC?u=j226903001&sid=OVIC&xid=5166353a. Accessed 27 Nov. 2018.

Yohnka, Edwin C., and Justin W. Patchin. ""Should Your School Punish Cyberbullies?"" Junior Scholastic/Current Events, 9 Oct. 2017, p. 22+. Global Issues in Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A511109293/OVIC?u=j226903001&sid=OVIC&xid=3e1afe69. Accessed 27 Nov. 2018.

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Forms of Cyberbullying

The typical cell phone today has a variety of convenient options for people to access on-the-go, including internet access. According to uswitch.com, “Motorola, on April 3rd, 1973, were the first company to mass produce the first handheld mobile phone (uswitch.com).” Over the years, it has become more of a habit to send messages to another person’s phone or through social media, to communicate with them instead of calling directly using their phone number. Many people would argue that sending a quick message is easier and quicker than to call someone on the phone. I can see their point of view in this instance, but beings that I am a mother of 3 children, I also think about the risks that kids run into being able to access the World Wide Web so easily. The Dictionary reads, “Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature (Dictionary).” Understanding the risks of Cyberbullying is just as important as understanding how to handle it if you become a victim or if you know of someone being a victim of this horrible crime.

There are different forms of cyberbullying which includes sending messages to a person’s cell phone, posting entries on Twitter for anyone to see, sending private messages through Facebook, etc. Some victims are bullied by people that aren’t a part of their lives and others will sadly be bullied by ones they do know. It seems as if targeting people on their personal Facebook and Twitter pages are the easiest and most chosen choice by the bullies, in my own opinion. It appears, bullies believe saying cruel and hurtful words to people behind a computer is doing no harm. The reality of it, it’s against the law and at times, it can be even more traumatizing then if the victim was physically assaulted. In the state of Oregon, “telephonic harassment is a Class B misdemeanor. This offense could accrue a fine of up to $2,500, up to six months in jail, or both. If the bully charged has been involved in distributing sexual or nude images of someone underage, these crimes are classified as Class A misdemeanors. The consequences include a fine of up to $6,250, up to a year in jail, or both. (Romano Law).” This level of punishment seems so minuscule to me, considering these victims lives may have been destroyed by all the embarrassment they endured by their cyberbully.

Adults and children who are cyberbullied become highly depressed due to their tormenting treatment. They develop the feeling of severe emotional pain, sadness and disgusted with themselves that they feel they have no other way out, so they take their own lives. Children as young as 6 years old are committing suicide due to being cyberbullied. I am not sure if these children are quite understanding the consequences of hanging themselves. I believe, they have it in their mind that living is too painful for them to continue any longer and search for the means to stop the pain they are feeling every day.

In the times that I have heard of another child taking their lives, I always wonder what went wrong to where they never got the help that they needed. Is it possible that maybe the child didn’t tell anyone, therefore, there wasn’t anyone to help them before they got to the point of not wanting to live? Did the people in their lives take the proper actions to help these victims and protect them from their abusers? Parents and school teachers need to be aware of the signs in our children today, such as: body language, sudden change in behavior, and listen to how others are talking to each other. People need to make it aware that cyberbullying is NOT acceptable for anyone, at any place or time. We as society need to understand the severity of the damage it is causing for the victims and their families. There is no excuse for it. Cyberbullies need to be accounted for their actions before we lose anymore of our precious angels from such mean and horrible treatment.

When the World Wide Web went live to the world in August of 1991 (Bryant), it has created a virtual world that I believe, people weren’t quite certain how it would impact peoples lives in the negative ways. The internet has provided a way for the bullies to hide behind their computers to belittle, intimidate, and harass others in the world. We must come together to protect one another, especially our children. Protect the victims and punish the bullies.

Works Cited

Bryant, Martin. 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened to the public. 6 August 2011. 8 December 2018. .

Dictionary. n.d. 2018 December 2018. .

Romano Law, P.C. n.d. 8 December 2018. . statista. August 2018. 8 December 2018. . uswitch.com. History of mobile phones and the first mobile phone. 6 April 2018. 8 December 2018. .

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The Problem of Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying began with the onset of availability of technology and social media websites. According to Kids Health, “Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person” (“Cyberbullying”). This can encompass anything from sending mean or derogatory text messages repeatedly, to posting untrue or hurtful posts on social platforms. Some common social platforms that can be used to execute these appalling acts are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Cyberbullies are typically drawn to these types of sites in effort to gain an audience and to further embarrass their victim. Sometimes others will join the cyberbully in the harassment and bullying, almost exuding to a pack mentality. Although these sites try and work to stop these types of incidents, it is extremely difficult to halt them due to the reluctance of the victim to report and the anonymity that the internet allows. The anonymity and readily availability of the internet is part of the enticing aspects that attract bullies to taking their harassment online. It is extremely difficult to try and find out who the perpetrator(s) are due to individuals being able to create fake profiles and screen names.

Cyberbullying is a growing concern, especially amongst pre-adolescences and teens. This age group is typically the prime participants in committing acts of cyberbullying, as well as being the primary victims. During this stage of life, many teens are trying to find their own identity, facing peer-pressures such as being popular and accepted, as well as experiencing a little more freedom and independence than they are used to, while trying to push boundaries. Many cyberbullies typically prey upon individuals that they perceive as weak, in effort to make themselves appear strong and cool. They also choose individuals that they feel will not tell about the harassment or will not stand-up for their selves. “Although males participate in cyberbullying, females are usually the main offenders and victims” (“CyberBullying”). According to Kids Health, “This could be attributed to the fact that most males use confrontation in the form of insults and threats, whereas females use passive aggressive actions such as spreading hurtful/harmful lies and gossip” (“CyberBullying”). None the less, the impact of cyberbullying, whether from males or females, can be very detrimental.

Seemingly, many people believe that bullying, whether in person or online, has little to no effect. However, this is far from the truth. Mental, emotional, and psychological health issues can arise due to this type of harassment. Many individuals develop anxiety, depression, and lower self-confidence, which could lead to suicidal thoughts/actions. A recent study conducted by the National Institute of Health showed that “victims of cyberbullying have shown to exhibit greater levels of depression than victims of traditional bullying” (“Depression High”). Depression can affect individuals in different ways such as, loss of previous interests, detachment from friends and family, lower grades, changes in moods, etc. However, depression is often associated with suicidal thoughts.

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The Effect of Cyberbullying on Social Platforms

As a part of everyday life, Social Platforms has had an overpowering effect on people’s behaviors. Social Platforms have opened up exciting possibilities but there have been unethusiatic ones too. One is cyberbullying, the #1 cause of suicide around the world. Cyberbullying is on the rise, and the impact is often underestimated. In 2012, for example, a 15-year-old girl named Amanda Todd committed suicide due to cyberbullying. At first, people thought it was just a case of a rebellious teen seeking attention but later realized cyberbullying played an important role in the teenager’s life. Despite the well-publicized suicide cases around the world, people still mistakenly think social media does not influence people to commit suicide.

Cyberbullying affects people from any age, race or religion. It also affects their everyday lives. Many people feel embarrassed that they are going through a devastating time, in their lives. So, they feel suicide is the only way to stop everything they’re going through. For example, just last year an 18-year-old Brandy Vela shot herself in the chest in front of her family because she was constantly being attacked for her weight as a she became a target of cyberbullying. Society doesn’t realize that this is a major problem. Cyberbullying is more than just kids picking on kids. It’s a dangerous overgrown disease that needs to be cut from the root before we lose more innocent people.

Social media is getting more popular as years pass, but so is cyberbullying. You basically see this unnatural behavior in everyday life even when you’re going through your favorite celebrity page and we so happen to check their comments section on a recent picture they posted. And all we see is people commenting disgusting things to someone they don’t even know personally is just disturbing. Cyberbullying gives other people power to sit behind a computer screen and anonymously or not say hateful things to people. Back in 2014, an Australian model-actress Charlotte Dawson committed suicide by hanging herself after constantly being attack on social media. Another celebrity recently attacked via social media was Selena Gomez after the famous designer Dolce and Gabbana initiated the attack by stating that she was “so ugly.” After those hateful statements, she checked herself into rehab for anxiety and depression.

There is a consistent relationship between cyberbullying and depression among people all over the world. The weight of social media in our lives is too much to handle and people already have enough to face in their daily life to worry about hateful things people say to them. Society tends to forget that innocent lives are being lost every day because of cyberbullying. Another devasted case of cyberbullying is of a 12-year-old girl from Florida named Gabriela Green who in January committed suicide by hanging herself because she couldn’t take the pressure of being harassed. No one would think that a 12-year-old would be thinking about committing such a horrific act upon herself. Back in 2010, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince committed suicide by hanging herself after becoming a target of cyberbullying numerous times. The reality of cyberbullying is unbelievably different and unfortunately much more severe than we all imagine.

Parents have an important role to play in helping their kids navigate social platforms safely. For example, parents should occasionally check their kid’s social platforms for any evidence of cyberbullying or any suspicious message. Secondly, parents should always talk to their kids about the harm social platforms can cause. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people around the world. People should take into consideration what they say and what they write on a daily every time they log in to any social media. To help prevent undesirable pain to others.

People sometimes think that they do enough with teaching their kids to be good, but fail to talk to their kids about how hateful and harmful social platforms really are. The internet has been an amazing force for good, but it has caused undeniable suffering. We can all bring awareness to this delicate situation if we help each other instead of hurting one another. If someone is going through this situation or is having suicidal thoughts don’t hesitate to talk to someone or call The Suicidal thought line at 1800-273-8255. Together we can create an environment that limits the presences of cyberbullying and its negatives impacts on people.

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Cyber Bullying – a Growing Problem

There has been an immense uprise in online bullying. You have probably noticed this, but why has the amount spiked so much in recent years, and why is it so popular on social media sites? And for the people getting bullied, a massive effect that comes from this is depression which can lead to much worse. We can help end cyberbullying. People choose to abuse these sites and bully, and that percentage of people is increasing, but there are ways to protect yourself from this.

To start with, let’s define what social media sites are supposed to be used for. On these sites people are supposed to share things with friends, find recipes, research, watch entertainment, discover some great places to eat, and etcetera. These are things that people do all the time and social media sites make that a lot easier, but what happens when people misuse them and don’t use it for things that can help them out? And instead, bully? That's when we start to have a problem. People do things like comment on a picture saying hurtful things like, “You’re so ugly!” or even, “Kill yourself.” If you read enough of those comments you start to believe it. The rate of bullying in school ranges from 9% to 98% among different studies.

That goes to show that among those many studies there hasn’t been a percentage lower than 9% which in itself is a huge problem but what if we add in that the average for traditional bullying is 35% and the average for cyberbullying is 15% and now that use of social media is increasing, what else will go along with that? More cases of cyberbullying in schools. Now, let's understand why this is such a huge problem and a tremendous factor would be the effects of being bullied. The first one would be things like they can’t sleep which would affect focus in school because they are thinking about what had happened which leads to anxiety, then depression. Cyberbullying doesn’t just take a toll on mental health but physical health too, such as headaches and stomach aches. If the bullying is bad enough that could push the person into deep depression which can lead to suicide. And the problem is worse in middle school because the average of students being bullied is 24%.

What about why the amount of Cyberbullying has increased while the person being bullied doesn’t know who the person bullying them is half the time! Which means they are less likely to be caught and is a “Better choice” for the bully. More advances are happening in social media websites. Technology is way more accessible now. Its also becoming a top priority so kids can call their parents, contact people, and chat with friends. They can also research and look up things. All they have to do is reach into their pocket and grab their phone, and they can do all of that. Plus with online websites or apps you can make a fake identity or just keep yours unknown. People usually bully on pictures of the person and can hide their identity. A lot more people have been using it, and studies show that social media sites can improve grades. But with all of that how can you help the bullying come to a halt… stand up to them! Screenshot what you can of the bullying and report it. Always help the kid person being bullied, hang out with them. But of course how can you protect yourself from cyberbullying? First, don’t post anything that will embarrass anyone and always be kind. Try to be aware of who is seeing your posts. Keep your password secret. Make sure your parents know what you’re doing. And if you are getting bullied just report it.

After reading this, hopefully you learned what the cyberbullying is, what the effects from it is, how you can help stop bullying, and of course how to protect yourself from cyberbullying.

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Mental Health and Cyberbullying

Education and mental illness, two very different but prominent aspects of our society today. But, they might not be so different after all. In today’s society we are seeing an increase in both of these areas especially in the teenage age range. Today, mental illness is the second leading disability in our world. A study performed in 2017 showed that 7.4% of youth in the United States were experiencing severe depression, this may not sound like a large part of our society but it truly is when we are thinking about this being the children of our world. Then, put it into a greater perspective when you connect it with this astonishing fact. In 1999, when homeschooling was not as prominent, approximately 850,000 students in America were being homeschooled, 1.7% of total students. By 2012, this number jumped to 1.77 million students being homeschooled, this equaling to 3.4% of all students in the United States where to this day that number continues to stay right around.

If 3.4% of students country-wide is equal to 1.77 million students, we’re looking at close to 4 million children/teenagers dealing with mental illness in just the United States. So now you may be wondering how the two are exactly connected, and that is what I am here to further explore. Is there a connection between the two, and if so what kind of connection? What I wanted to look deeper into was the overall amount of children/teenagers in schooling dealing with mental illness. Then my next question to look further into was, are the children developing these mental illnesses possibly developing these mental illnesses because of the form of education they are getting? So I decided I would to compare the mental illness statistics in public education and in homeschooling.

The common association with school in general is that perhaps you have to actually like it and be a good student to be able to enjoy it, right? It makes sense, if a student struggles to enjoy what they are learning and struggles with the actual material, they are less likely to be happy at least in school. From what studies have shown, the less connected the students are to being at school and in the classroom (in public education), the more likely they are to go down the wrong path either with mental illness, substance abuse, or not finishing their high school career. This means children/teens may dread having to wake up on those school days, which then turns into an eventual hate for going to school every day.

These are all starting issues eventually lead to depression in these children/young teenagers. These issues are not new, however, there have always been students who have hated school. So then why is this generation making a jump in the mental illness area? “Behavioral health has become a public health crisis. No other public health crises are as widespread or contribute as much to the burden of illness in the U.S. as do behavioral health disorders. By 2020, mental and substance use disorders will surpass all physical diseases worldwide as major causes of disability.” The answer to all of this? Technology. To some this may come as a surprise, but to me and I’m sure most of today’s society, it all makes sense. Today teens are using technology more than ever, especially because it is an ever-growing part of our society.

The issue is that they rely on it too heavily, and studies have begun to show the drop in face to face social interaction between teenagers and their friends dropping noticeably after 2011. Thinking back to the time of 2011, smartphones were really making their big break out into the popularity of our society at the time, and because of this it was easier than ever for students to communicate with each other without actually hanging out, it was simpler, they relied on it too heavily and it created social and mental issues within these teens inside the school environment. This then leads into the increase in homeschooling today. Children/teenagers who are regularly feeling anxious, stressed, or depressed in high school often feel homeschooling is the safer route for them to take, and if they do not feel this way, their parents do strongly. Of course, there are other reasons for parents to want their children homeschooled, for example, if they do not agree with the material being taught, or if they do not think it is safe to send their child to a public education system. I have found that public education is actively causing mental illness, but this does not necessarily mean that homeschooling is the answer and that public education is to be blamed solely for mental illness in children and teens. So after successfully finding that public education can cause these problems, I started to look into the statistics of homeschooling.

I quickly found that I would not be able to clearly answer my question on whether one is causing mental illnesses more than the other. When looking into mental illness tied to homeschooling, what I found is that it is not just tied to the homeschooling, but to the community these students are being homeschooled in. Statistically, many areas that are high in the homeschooling practice are of Christian faith, more conservative, religious, regions. Many may wonder why, but it has been proven statistically that actively practicing Christians are at a higher risk of developing these mental illnesses. Why, you may ask? The answer is simply for the reason that it has been found that the practicing conservative Christians do not take the time to actively practice and acknowledge the idea and importance of mental illness.

This includes the overall education of mental illness as well as the importance of speaking about personal mental health issues. Due to this, these students are more prone to developing these disabilities because they do not know how to properly handle them. Society in general has created this stigma over time assuming that if we do not talk about mental illness it will simply go away, and this practice is even more prominent for those a part of the conservative Christian practice. This is because of their overall practice with faith, and in the most severe of these practices they often do not believe in taking medications that would alter the way your brain works or your emotions are controlled. In most cases, they actually find taking these medications to be a sin against God and their faith. In fact, 41% of Christians questioned by a Baylor University study said that they were told by someone in their Christian practice that their mental illness was not real.

Going into this topic, I expected to come out finding a strong, solid answer that homeschooling is causing mental illness more so than the public education system due to the lack of socialization skills caused through the practice. To me, it seemed like a simple answer, homeschooled children are not surrounded by other children daily therefore they do not have the opportunity to practice their socialization skills. But instead, I actually found quite the opposite. I can not stand firmly and say that one form of education is causing mental illness than the other because there is research proving that both do quite frequently. However, from what I have gathered through this process the public education system seems to link closer to mental illness disabilities more so than homeschooling. This may be because there is more research done on public education, or if it is the opposite and there just is not enough research on homeschooling children. Either way, this growing issue of mental illness within education of children and teenagers is its own issue that needs to be worked on in today’s society.

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The World of Cyberbullying

Nina Dobrev once said, “In the cyberworld, bullies have a wall to hide behind so they say things that they probably wouldn’t say otherwise. It’s because they are unhappy with something about themselves so they lash out in an anonymous way.” (Dobrev, par. 1) Cyberbullying is when someone uses technology to send hostile, threatening, or humiliating messages to or about another person. This can occur through text, email, or the most seen, social media. Cyberbullying can be anonymous, which makes the situation even worse. In the society that we are living in today, we are all wired our phones and laptops. Before the 2000s, one living in this era would never be able to imagine a life with smartphones. However, society has progressed and now, one cannot even use the bathroom without their phone. The Internet opened a world of opportunities, as well as new dangers, such as cyber bullying. Many people, ranging from all different ages become the victims of online harassment. Cyber bullying not only takes the dignity and worth of one and leads to depression but it may also end with suicide. The cases of cyberbullying have increased over the last years and this has to stop. In today's culture, we need to take active steps to stop the bully from targeting people, we need to help better the effects of cyberbullying, such as suicide and depression, and we need to not let social media impact us negatively.

Why should we keep facing a world where people are being bullied, when we could do something about it? Should cyberbullying be considered a criminal offense? If cyberbullying were to be a criminal offense, would it decrease? We are apart of the problem in which is causing others to lower their self esteem and commit suicide.. For example, if one were to post a picture on instagram, and others were to comment mean and cruel things, that person would not feel mentally and emotionally okay. So why not stop all this nonsense? There’s one word for that. And that word is money. Money plays a huge factor when trying to stop bullying especially when it comes to social media standards, because why lose all your money and shut down the app, meanwhile people are committing suicide, depressed, and bringing themselves down. We are the only ones who can stop this.

We are the ones who need to protest against this, and really speak about what is right and what is wrong. Put yourself in the shoes of others that are getting bullied. When they ask for help, do they really get help? Does it really make them want to stop them from taking those pills, or stop posting there pictures that they feel beautiful in? We need to take action in this and stop this fake world that we are living in and really take it into consideration that there are other people choosing to leave this world because of a comment someone made on social media. Cyber bullying should be a criminal offense. The reasons to this are because the people making these nasty comments to bring others down is causing the target to take their life. They are the one making the comment. They are the one who’s putting this target into a place of depression and sadness that no one should face. Everyone should know right from wrong so that when the offender gets confronted and claims that they “didn’t know,”this is false because they are the ones who triggered the victims emotions and played with their head.People need to learn that the consequences of cyberbullying are serious in this world.

Just as someone is getting bullied, the bully may also be going through something in their life and want to make others feel the same way that he/ she is feeling So, how do we stop the bully from targeting others? We need to speak up And help open their eyes and show them that what they are doing is wrong and really impacts the lives of others. In our society today, we never know what one is going through so this bully just needs a punching bag. And that punching bag is a person. Within this both the bully and the target get hurt. When we notice a bully we always have to think to ourselves, “What could this person be going through in their life?” According to verywellmind, the reasons why bullies have a need to target others are because targets are well liked or popular, targets are viewed stereotypically or prejudicially, and targets have physical features that attract attention.

Targets having physical features that attract attention promotes jealousy toward the wrongdoer.Jealousy plays a huge role in this because the bully just wants to make you feel like crap and in the end the bully wins. It’s not only whether you are pretty you attract attention, it's whether you are short, fat, tall, have a big chest or no chest at all, bullies will find a way to utilize your appearance and bring you down. Do we have to be pretty in order to attract attention? Any type of appearance will attract a bully whether you are pretty or not. In the end we need to realize that standing up for ourselves, and making ourselves the bigger and better person will help us defeat this obstacle.The bullies confidence will eventually decrease and they will understand that what they did was wrong and will not do it to anybody else.

We need to help better the effects of cyberbullying, but how can we do this? The effects that play a major role in cyberbullying are depression, anger, suicide, and low self- esteem. We need to really take into consideration that we are losing many people due to the effects of cyberbullying and this needs to stop. An article from BullyingUK tells us that “It has been well documented that cyberbullying has resulted in tragic events including suicide, and self-harm and clearly, more needs to be done in order to protect vulnerable children and adults from online bullying.” How can we help these people who are facing these horrible feelings and thoughts? Some examples Bullying UK tells us is “letting them know that there is help available to them, support them to talk to a teacher that they trust so they feel they have somewhere safe at school to go to, encourage them to talk to their parents or speak to another family member, take any type of screenshots of the cyber bullying so that there is proof of this is happening, and report all abuse to the relevant social media networks by clicking on the “report abuse” button.”

Some statistics that show this are: 5% reported self-harm, 3% reported an attempt of suicide as a direct result of cyber bullying, 28% of young people have reported incidents of cyberbullying on Twitter, 87% of today’s youth have witnessed cyberbullying, almost 34%of students acknowledge that they have experienced cyberbullying, and one out of every three kids feel they are more accepted on social media networks than in real life. These statistics prove to us that we are not trying hard enough to take care of these innocent lives being taken away and we need to stop this. And if we did care enough,then we would put an end to this.

One of the biggest role in cyberbullying is not letting social media impact us negatively. But how can we prevent this? How can we feel confident again when someone has already hurt us and called us mean, horrible names? Social media cyberbullying should be stopped because it is in the main eye of the public. In our society today, we have devices that can save everything that has been said, or can even be seen forever, no matter what you do it will never be “deleted.” A big majority of cyberbullying incidents are being screenshotted, saved, and sent out to many people.We have a big problem that interferes with social media - and that is communicating with one another. Why is communicating through a computer easier than communicating face to face? When you are on social media and online, people tend to have this confidence that appears out of nowhere but we don't know what is true or not because social media allows us to hid our true identity. When the creators of social media, such as instagram and snapchat were creating these apps, they had a purpose, and this purpose was to connect with others and gain stronger connections with everyone around the world no matter what part of the world one is in. But honestly, thinking about it, it does more harm than good.

An example is all these young people in the world are facing the world of fakeness, and negativeness. It’s bringing all these kids more negative damage than positive. Social media exposes young children to too many things that they may not understand. Why are we harming these children for no reason? Social media has this power of being a bully without any type of consequence. The people who do participate in cyberbullying want to bring others down and put them in a place no one would want to see them in. The best way to put a stop to cyberbullying is if these websites take responsibility themselves. We should have people on these social media sites that prevent all this nonsense from happening, there should be people watching out for all the other people who are being harmed. And if these sites actually “cared” about the people affected by this matter, they would try their best to stop this. Once we see these changes in our social media sites, the bully might stop from taking on these negative actions.. Even though social media creators can not get rid of all cyberbullying in the world, they can help to make a difference and help to spread positivity.

In conclusion, bullying is a very serious matter, whether we like it or not, and whether we are participating or not. We need to come to the realization that bullying can occur in anyone’s life, whether you are victim, a bully, or a bystander and we may or may not know of it. Cyberbullying is calling us to take active steps to stop the bully from targeting others, we need to help better the effects of cyberbullying, such as suicide and depression, and we need to not let social media impact us negatively. Cyber bullying is a growing concern among parents and adults that needs to be eliminated before it gets out of hand. We are the ones to stop this. We can’t just sit and wait for someone to magically appear and save everyone. If cyberbullying didn’t exist we would be saving the lives of innocent ones. Go to stopbullying.gov in need of getting help or want to help others who are getting bullied. Even though we can’t stop any bullies, we can try to help any victims who are in need of any help. We need to help them with any embarrassment and humiliation that they face. Our society can and will help those who do go through cyberbullying and suffer from it and all we can do is protect them from the media and be there for them.

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Cyberbullying and Social Media

Did you know that over 25% of teenagers have been bullied repeatedly through cell phones and the Internet? (by Cyber-bullying statistics).(ParaphrasingThis means that over the years teenagers get angry they have been in a suspicious situation in their lives that have been bullied at school and have a mental health in their self that they just can't control themselves that there are consequences like the depres ion Suicidal anxiety.What is cyberbullying? Bien cyberbullying It is the use of the Internet, email, instant messaging, phone calls or other electronic communications to harass or threaten others. Hurrying rumors (which are not true) to the other person on the Internet. We have to prevent children, and adults from always social media. Cyber-bullying is a known problem all over the world. It goes unnoticed as real bullying most of the time, cyber bullying can be very damaging, and sometimes even fatal. More and more people are standing up against it, but there's still a lot of cyber bullies out there.

As Charles E., ""Cyberbullying"". Sending abusive messages repeatedly over the Internet or using a mobile phone. The messages are often menacing in nature, and instill the fear that the stalking can move offline and in the real life of the target, even becoming a physical threat ""(P2).(Paraphrasing)Let's talk about the methods of cyberbullying, one of the reasons why teenagers are abusive in school or social media is due to thugs treats and although the person who is bulling the victim in social media becomes not ENT iend In that those words in social media for example in the message the harassed will tell the victim ""you're ugly, Pig, your eyes are bigger, ""something like that is affecting the victim and could make them think of suicide . Posting had pictures or video of someone, saying words that could damage the Person. In addition the majority of young agers adolescents suffer mental health problems when they are intimidated in social media because of friends in social media or at school will also increase feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and Eating habits, and Loos of interest in activities.

These issues may persist in Adulthood. However approximately around 4.400 Death per year was a suicide of a teenager. According to digital humans, ""The American Center for Disease Control. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. More than 14 percent of teenage students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have tried. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4.400 deaths from Year. "" (Paraphrasing)This means that most teenagers are praising suicide because of cyber-bullying, this is happening all the time and it's important because I want to tell the guys something I'll never say again about what happened to me he's been killing in Med IO, although high school I have b a victim of cyber-intimidated before in social media or in school just because I was a student of God, shy person, have friends who betray you and say words that could hurt my feelings or someone Talking on my back just because I was a quiet person, shy person, tell me you're so ugly, fat, I'll never kiss you, something like that and it really hurt my feeling, at one point I could bear it more and my self-esteem was so low That I've been thinking about suicide this kind of thing happened in my past that I don't want to talk to anybody Is Something I remember is in my head all the time.

Every Sunday I go to church and pray to God to give me a solution to live my life, and have fun, forget what happens to you and the focus of new things this is my goal In life, I'm still here. , I am alive, my mental health is good, I have been in therapist all the time, and now I understand something that the people who harass me will feel a pain in the same way that they treat me and I will never forget how I am a positive human being and I am a strong person who has dreams and goal that The real will come I finish college my life is beautiful, because I have my family with me, thanks mom Lilia, my father Carlos, my sister Karen for the support. I feel alive.

On the other hand, schools and parents can prevent cyberbullying from happening ActivitSchool. In the same way we have a very nice staff in the school as, we could trust and converse with our teachers, advisors, security, its principal etc....... Although teachers Might have a program call ""Stop the Violence"", this is the sign of students who could join their project to stop cyber-bullying , as for example we have problems with sexting, saying bad words online to hurt the other person, we have the abuse that the bully on the internet is using his sensuality to seduce the victim on the Internet, to intimidate the victim and hurt their Feeling Within. We also have violence in school, like fights in school such as where they were bullied into school raise your hand As The websites of the National Council for the Prevention of crimeITE the definition is,""Use of the Internet, cell phones, video games, systems or other technology to send or publish text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person?"" (2006, p. 152)(Paraphrasing This means that cyber bullying might be the limitation of using mobile phones or posting on the Internet photos of you naked or something like that and you have to avoid by not using the Internet, besides, you can go to the personal identification measure of the S VIC Timas and PU Blish Ching materials that could Damage His reputation forever.

In addition, we also have intimidation blocking application and what this means that many The thugs promoted many goals like seducing the victim to send photos that were imappropriated to send on their phones, and you're starting to wonder what could this affect the victim? Well this could affect your self-esteem and the thugs take the average to admit that they send their photos to the other guys and this is call sexting if not what is sexting As Christy Matte “By sending sexually explicit messages, photos or video through a cell phone, computer or any digital device. Sexting includes photos and videos that contain nudity or show or simulated sexual acts. It also includes text messages that shoot or propose sexual acts.

As adolescents and children social media, applications, and messaging, the risks they will send or receive sexually explicit content have become a concern for parents, teachers, and law enforcement. Sexting is often done as a joke, a way to get attention, or as a flirt. You need to discuss it so your child understands the risks and what to do when you are pressured to Participate ""(1).(Paraphrasing)

This means that When teenagers are sending unpropagated photos with their friends and this could affect their Sexuality as best in fact this could be one of the reasons or consequences your child is going to risk his life by sending photos to his friends and they intimidate him/her.

What is false identify? Not bad Falsehood identifies is the reputation of the victim, isolating the victim from Other. Predators You can pretend to be another teenager to attack a victim, but cyberbullies may also hides behind false profiles. According to the Education Week, ""Many states have passed laws against cyberbullying, and some of those laws They have allowed states to accuse students of crimes for online misconduct. In some cases, false profiles were configured using their victim's identity as a means to intimidate and taunt their victim ""(1). However, false profiles are also used in other ways. In Texas, a teenager committed suicide after Supposedly being Cyberbullied by pairs. The abuse included false profiles that Mostrabann his face placed on a picture of a pig. Of course, children's depredadoress have also been known to create false profiles to attract victims and groom them. And CNN showed How easy it is for a predator to attract unsuspecting children and teenagers by pretending to be a new friend. A teenage girl did not think of meeting with whom she thought was a child only a few years older. Instead, a meeting in a park took her to a grown man she didn't know and her father That he was furious. But false profiles have existed since the Internet began.

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Dangers of Cyber Bullying

The Oxford Dictionary definition for cyberbullying is “The use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature”(“Cyberbullying”). The question that guides us is should cyber-bullying that occurs outside of school be punished by the school? Cyberbullying not only affects one's mind and emotions but their actions as well. A national survey conducted by the Cyber-Bullying Research Center found that 2.75 million children stayed home from Cyberbullying, 10.3% skipped school, and 60.8% have been affected so much from Cyberbullying that it impacted their ability to learn and feel safe ("Bullying and School Avoidance."). So, yes schools need to help students who are being cyberbullied in any way they can. Cyberbullying is a complex topic and has various dangers to it. Cyberbullying has increased significantly due to the innovation of new technology as one could imagine. These children are now able to hide behind their screens and attack on a person wherever and whenever.

Children shouldn’t have to fear going to school and shouldn’t have to fear going online. The internet and social media should be a safe environment, but it has become a place for many people to fear. Schools to certain extent should have the ability and jurisdictions to do something. Cyberbullying is something that affects a students performance in school and therefore should be handled to an extent by the school. Schools should be a safe place where children can learn, rather than having a constant fear of being bullied from those online. Nikolao.D, a student who went to Illinois State University did a study seeing if Cyberbullying influenced people to have suicidal thoughts and if so by how much. He found that cyber-bullying had a strong impact on suicidal behavior. It increased suicidal thoughts by 14% and the suicidal attempts by 8%.(“Does Cyberbullying Impact Youth Suicidal Behaviors?”).

Furthermore, schools should be able to intervene in some way. Public schooling authorities have certain restrictions on how involved they can be in the personal lives of their students, however, there can be action taken to help victims of this epidemic. For example, Schools can begin to provide Counseling and guidance for those that come to them with this specific issue. As well as opening up groups so that these children don’t have to feel like they are alone. Most of all victims of cyberbullying have absolutely no idea what kind of situation they’re getting themselves into. The “bullies” use means of threat and fear along with many other disgusting/ horrible tactics to draw their victim into their world of phycological torture. Awareness through school advertising could very much help many kids in the world, preventing unnecessary hardship and even death. Some may say that if it occurs outside of the school the school should have no part in it, and don’t need to help. Just looking at all the statistics and seeing how much this is affecting the children, schools should realize this is not a small problem.

These children are the future, and if we don’t change anything then they will not progress in their academics. Since cyberbullying is affecting the students attendance and learning ability the schools should feel like it is their responsibility to do something. A parent to a teenager I would imagine is a hard task. Most children as they get older distance themselves and often go through a lot dealing with anxiety, depression and so on. If someone is getting cyber bullied they usually won’t tell anyone, and they would just keep it to themselves. Not wanting to cause some sort of scene or not wanting to let people in, like their parents into their lives. This then leads to loneliness and feeling as if you are alone and no one cares.

By doing so, many commit harmful damages to their bodies and become a threat to themselves. Feeling as if they are useless. Cyber Bullying has only been a problem for less than two decades, due to the uprise in social media and the advancement of new technology. Social media allows innocent teens unknowingly allowing strangers to invade their life. It’s quite a complex situation and makes it very hard to prevent, but I truly believe that if schools decide to put the time and effort in to help and protect their students they will help so many Individuals.

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Cyberbullying in Social Media

With technology becoming more and more prevalent in todays society, we as humans have developed newer ways to evolve our communication around these new technologies. Yet with all of this, older problems such as bullying have evolved to now encompass a new playing field that is, Social Media. As social media continues to evolve, the amount of cyberbullying increases and it’s a problem that is getting more and more out of hand daily. Although social media is a great basis to communicate with people around the world, it is now being used to intimidate and harass people with what seems to be no repercussions. Yet although it may seem this way, this is not entirely truthful but before diving in we must first understand what is cyberbullying and how do people become cyberbullies.

According to Stop Bullying, a government website dedicated to preventing bullying, cyberbullying is the act of bullying someone over devices such as “cell phones, computers, and tablets.” while using any messaging service on said devices. Its not just messaging someone that could be considered cyberbullying but also sharing content that can harm or is “mean” also falls under this category. The Department Of Health and Human Services created this website over the many concerns with cyberbullying, some of which being that it is very hard to detect and it can occur almost anywhere online. This can especially affect children in schools who can potentially access this kind of information online without any teacher or parent taking notice. There are measures being put in place to prevent this such the blocking of certain websites to prevent the access of potentially harmful websites, but cyberbullying doesn’t just affect children. Institutions of higher education are also taking steps to investigating the prevalence of cyberbullying among the many students.

The article titled “Cyberbullying in higher education: A literature review” by the authors Lynette K. Watts, Jessyca Wagner, Benito Velasquez, Phyllis I. Behrens studies the prevalence of cyberbullying in colleges and how people may become cyber bullies. According to the authors, one of the main factors of cyber bullying is the ability to remain anonymous making it “even more attractive than traditional bullying”. Without having to be in someone’s face, cyber bullies could falsify their identity and bully someone for a very long time without the worry of someone knowing who they truly are. This could make people want to bully others more without the worry of repercussions since their identity is hidden. Its not just anonymity but also psychological issues that can contribute to people cyberbullying.

In the same article, the authors refer to a study done by Dr Bulent Dilmac, who studied 666 students and their traits and predicted whether the student would be prone to being a cyberbully. Dilmac found that traits such as the ability to understand another person and aggression were predicted as having “engagement in and future engagement in cyberbullying”. While on the contrary, Dilmac predicted people with traits such as endurance to be more exposed to cyberbullying but not actually become one. It was lastly found that bullies lacked sympathy and emotional support, which was why they used social media to attack others; while victims of cyberbullying were found to understand others better and be more empathetic which in turn resulted in them not cyberbullying others. (Dilmac 2009)

Now understanding why people tend to bully others, its also very useful in understanding what happens to the victims and how likely they are to bully others and how parents and society can have an impact. The article titled “Comparing Cyberbullying Perpetration on Social Media between Primary and Secondary School Students.” By authors Shirley S. Ho, Liang Chen and Angelica P.Y. Ng researches how cyberbullying can affect children and adolescents, specifically in Singapore and how parents and normality’s contribute to this. In this article we are introduced to two different parental ideas, Active Mediation and Restrictive Mediation. Active Mediation being the idea that parents help children by understanding that they are using the internet as a way to communicate and teach them how to use the internet in a safe manner. According to Ho, Liang and Ng this method was “found to be effective in equipping children with the skills and knowledge on responding to dangerous situations while on the internet”. While Restrictive Mediation, which is the idea of putting restrictions on the websites children access and the duration they’re allowed on it, was found to have a “negative correlation”.

The second idea presented is normality’s or as referred to in this article, norms. The certain norms introduced in this text are but not limited to, include injunctive norms and descriptive norms with injunctive norms being “the general consensus of for socially acceptable behavior” (Ho, Liang, Ng). While descriptive norms while very similar is the idea of “rules and standards” (Ho, Liang, Ng) that everyone follows but isn’t necessarily a law. It found then according to Ho, Liang and Ng that among 635 primary school students and 789 adolescent students that using the two types of mediation and understanding the normality’s that there was a “negative association with cyberbullying perpetration”, meaning there was sufficient data to say that the students wouldn’t become cyberbullies. This in turn allows us to reach the conclusion that those who were taught how to take caution on the internet can find themselves less likely to be bullied and those who are getting bullied to be less likely to do it to someone else.

In conclusion, cyberbullying among social media is a very serious matter and one that extensive studying and research has allowed us to better understand. Understanding how certain factors in one’s life can contribute to the possibility of becoming a cyberbully, can help us make better decisions and help teach children how to avoid this and how to not become one. While there isn’t exactly any legislation that is helping contribute to the end of cyberbullying, through these two articles we can see that there is a way for us to end it, all it takes is for everyone to stand up to it and stop cyberbullying.

Works Cited

Watts, Lynette K., et al. “Cyberbullying in Higher Education: A Literature Review.” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 69, 2017, pp. 268–274., doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.038.

Ho, et al. “Comparing Cyberbullying Perpetration on Social Media between Primary and Secondary School Students.” Computers &Amp; Education, vol. 109, no. C, 2017, pp. 74–84.

“What Is Cyberbullying.” StopBullying.gov, Department of Health and Human Services, www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/index.html.

Walker, C. M. (2014). Cyberbullying redefined: An analysis of intent and repetition. International Journal of Education and Social Science, 1(5), 59e69. Retrieved from https://www.ijessnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6.pdf.

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Cyberbullying and its Effects

Contents

Analysis of Policy Approaches, Legislation, and Research
Policy Approaches Employed to Combat the Issue
Recent Legislation to Against Cyber Bullying in California
Advocacy Strategy
Advocacy Strategy Goals
Advocacy Strategy Requirements
Activities Participation Short-term Mid-term Long-term
Logic plan for proposed advocacy strategy
- Conclusion

Cyber bullying is, in the simplest terms possible, communication of a harmful and repeated nature by an individual against another made possible through web-based avenues (Fousiani, Dimitropoulou, Michaelides, & Van Petegem, 2016). Research on the phenomenon indicates that as a social problem, cyberbullying follows the same demographic pathways as traditional bullying. In other words, it manifests primarily as discrimination along the lines of race, gender, physical attributes like weight, and other elements that constitute—in the eyes of the majority—a sense of social or cultural otherness (Fousiani et a., 2016). In that respect, the demographics that are susceptible to traditional bullying constitute the at-risk population for cyber bullying.

With the post-millennial generations being termed as digital natives, cyber bullying as a problem has, in the recent years, manifest in very young demographics—including children in elementary school—because of their conversance with digital appliances and the internet. To that effect, cyber bullying is a problem across a very broad generational spectrum; the entire world demographic aged 40 and below qualifies as a high-risk demographic for the problem. Even so, statistics in the United States, and the state of California to be specific, indicate that younger populations in school, that is, college students and younger, comprise the cohort most bedevilled by this issue. According to a 2015 survey of California by kidsdata.org, one in every five students in grades 7 upwards as well as those in non-traditional programs have been cyber bullied (Student bullying, 2018).

It is estimated that around 30% of school-going youth in the United States are bullied in general and around 20% of them are cyber-bullied (Student bullying, 2018). Cyber bullying is reported to be higher in girls than boys across all the socio-cultural/economic demarcations, that is, race/ethnicity/national origin, religion, and sexual orientation. Children from the LGBTQ community as well as those with disabilities stand a much higher risk of being bullies on various web-based platforms according to kidsdata.org (Student bullying, 2018).

Cyber bullying, as is the case with bullying, is a serious national and global problem. In the United States, there is overwhelming evidence connecting cyber bullying directly to depression and anxiety disorders, low academic achievement, substance abuse in adulthood, physical-psychological health issues like bulimia, and even suicide (Student bullying, 2018; Laer, 2014). Studies indicate that youth who bully others on social media stand a higher risk of (or are already) battling depression and are likely to commit suicide or engage in delinquent behavior (Student bullying, 2018). It comes as no surprise, therefore, that over the past ten years during which social media has grown to dictate the 21st century socio-cultural landscape, cyber-bullying and the problems has risen (Bannink, Broeren, van deLooij, de Wart, & Raat, 2014). Overall, the facts and statistics above reveal that cyber bullying is a national problem and that the state of California needs to take more action and refine its policy framework with specific regard to the issue.

Analysis of Policy Approaches, Legislation, and Research

Cyber bullying, though currently being address, it is need of greater attention and policy focus. Attention paid to bullying policy across the United States in general California to be specific reveals a robust legal framework to combat the issue. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enacted in 2015 address bullying under the overarching mandate of the No Child Left Behind policy (Every Student Succeeds Act, 2018). In California, as is the case with most states, there is no antiharassment law specific to cyber-bullying. Even so, the California Education Codes 200 to 234, codes 32260 to 32283, and codes 48900 to 48900.9 all address the issue of bullying and, in that regard, prompt schools to cover cyber bullying accordingly (California anti-bullying, 2018).

Policy Approaches Employed to Combat the Issue

As indicate above, there are currently no specific laws targeting cyber bullying. However, there are several safeguards who umbrella functions cover the issue as explained below:

School-based bullying frameworks. All schools that receive federal funding are bound by state law to address and report discrimination on all matters on bullying (California anti-bullying, 2018). The success rate of these school-based interventions, as is the case will all other umbrella policies, cannot be accurately indexed. There is evidence to suggest that there is need for a more precise cyber bullying-specific framework of policy actions to adequately target the matter. For instance, race-based bullying and cyber bullying was reported to be twice as high in African American children. In the same vein, roughly 50% of all students in the LGBTQ community reported bullying on the basis of their sexual orientation (Student bullying, 2018). Even though it is not possible to quote statistic on the exact extent to which school-based interventions in California are underperforming, it is evident from the above fact that they are not working up to par.

Critical protections under the ESCA. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, the state of California has established federally standardized critical protections for disadvantaged and high-needs students in the United States (Every Student Succeeds Act, 2018). The statute does not actively bar cyber bullying but it minimize the bases upon which the act can be perpetrated, hence limiting the susceptibility of students in high-risk populations. The provisions of the ESSA for bullying protection are, as in the case above, quite narrow and limited to the realm of education. By and large, it is justified to argue that the ESSA actively protects children against cyber bullying only in the context of school and when the problem manifests around matters of learning such as educational performance. Holfeld and Grabe (2012) posit that since students are offline during most of the time they spent at school, it is much harder for policymakers to institute cyber bullying laws within a school framework. In light of these fact, it is justified to say that the ESSA is also doing far less than what is needed to effectively combat cyber bullying.

Evidence and place-based interventions. The state of California, in line with the ESSA, is currently establishing evidence-based and place-based interventions in conjunction with leaders in local social policy and education. It is these steps that have incubated and birthed ideas like Promise Neighborhoods which function to improve the social wellbeing of demographics protected under the ESSA. Notably, improving environments undermines the potency of social spaces as anchors for cyber bullies (Every Student Succeeds Act, 2018). Evidence-based interventions generally have a community focus. In that respect, they are focussed on re-constructing the socio-economic environment from which victims originate. In so doing, they fortify the children against the functionality of their backgrounds as a basis upon which they may be bullied. However, it takes little effort to see that the cradle-to-career solutions, grants, and increasing the capacity of eligible entities (such as Indian tribes) does not directly target cyber bullying in particular or even bullying in general (Every Student Succeeds Act, 2018).

An analysis of the three intervention examined casts in strong light the fact that California and the United States in general lacks robust policy for bullying, let alone cyber bullying. Admittedly, there is a very impressive network of policies and policy action against social discrimination in schools. It holds right to posit that schools have been approached as the principle social institutions and anti-discriminatory policy developed around them. The establishment of laws against discrimination in schools very generally addresses the subject of bullying and, by association, the issue of cyber bullying (California anti-bullying, 2018). Understandably, the total absence of a focussed and comprehensive anti-cyber bullying law continues to show in the failure of the existing safeguards, since the numbers of children who are suffering under the problem continue to ran high.

It is important to point out in concluding this sub section that there are no designated institutions against cyber bullying in California. The California Department of Education is charged with carrying out these functions and, on its webpage, has a provision “Bullying and Hate-Motivated Behavior Prevention” (California anti-bullying, 2018). This fact further underscores the absence of a designated institution, justifying existing views by researchers such as Barlett & Coyne (2014) who state that the exact nature of cyber bullying as a problem is not understood, leaving to the underestimation of the problem. As existing social institutions like the police and school departments continue to handle a problem for which they are not accurately configured, emerging issues in cyber bullying are prompting further research leading to more unrest in the realm of policymaking. Hence, it is necessary to examine the new policies on bullying in California and the United States in general to see their impact on bullying.

Recent Legislation to Against Cyber Bullying in California

The latest development in California’s anti-bullying legislation framework is Seth’s Law. Enacted in 2012, the policy is not a stand-alone law but is, instead, a legislative framework to strengthen existing anti-bullying codes. It is named after Seth Walsh, a gay student from Tehachapi, California who, having endured anti-gay bullying since the 6th grade, finally took his life at the age of 13 in 2010 (New tools, 2018). Various news sources indicate that a significant proportion of the bullying that Seth endured came from online platforms. Correspondingly, the primary demographic of focus for the formulation of Seth Law comprises students from the LGBTQ community (New tools, 2018). Nonetheless, individuals who are at risk of bullying due to their race or disability are well covered under Seth’s Law.

The law, as stated under the Education Code Section 234.b1(b)(1), states that ““If school personnel witness an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying, he or she shall take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so” (New tools, n.d.). The policy requires school districts to do the following:

Assume a very firm position on anti-bullying, with a policy that categorically indicates the prohibited bases for harassment with specific emphasis on sexual orientation and gender expression/identity.
Devise a means through which complaints on bullying will be received and processed; it is decreed that school personnel intervene the instant they witness bullying. Further information on this statute is to be found in the Education Code Section 234.1(b) & (f).
Publicize the anti-bullying policy and complaint process, including posting the policy in all schools and offices. This article is further explained in the Education Code Section 234.1(c) & (d).
Publicize the policy devised on bullying and specifically post it in all relevant offices in all schools across the district—more details are to be found in the Education Code Section 234.5.
Post materials to guide bullying victims on the school district website (New tools, n.d.).

It is important to first point out that the law is very much justified in the wake of all the discrepancies that anti-bullying policies in California have displayed over the past decades. By effectively sealing some of the holes on school district code on bullying, Seth’s Law is evidently tightening the grip of the law around bullying in schools. Ironically, it is in this focus of the law that its inherent weaknesses lie; Seth’s Law does not do anything new and, worse still, fails to address cyber-bullying as a unique and grossly under-addressed domain of harassment both in and out of schools.

Having ascertained the limits of Seth’s Law—and keeping in mind that it is not entirely a new policy but a reparation framework for the shortcomings of extant anti-bullying codes—it is completely justified to posit that the demerits of the statute are virtually the same as those outlined in the earlier parts of this paper. To reiterate these facts, the policy fails to directly and concisely address cyber-bullying. Worse still, it does little, if nothing at all, to examine the element of cyber-bullying outside the province of the school administration (New tools, 2018). With scholars such as Cassidy, Brown, and Jackson (2012) indicating parents’ concerns for cyber-bullying outside of school, it is completely justified to argue that Seth’s Law will have a negligible impact in curbing the harassment of children online. If the statistics from the 2014-2015 kidsdata survey are anything to go by, the policy is failing to address the matter and will probably continue to do so (Student bullying, 2018).

Advocacy Strategy

The correct advocacy strategy must have the following elements:

Acknowledge cyber-bullying as a unique and growing problem within the sphere of harassment;
Devise solutions and use instruments with specific regard to the cyber element of bullying;
Have a scope of advocacy that far transcends the school environment, a feature that is informed by the infallible view that cyber-bullying occurs as much within the school as it does outside (Ciucci & Baroncelli, 2014; DePaolis &Williford, 2015).

Advocacy Strategy Goals

The following aims will direct action within the advocacy framework being proposed:

To shed light and demarcate cyber-bullying as a semi-autonomous category of bullying that circumvents most of the parameters installed in and outside of schools to prevent harassment. For instance, it is virtually impossible for teachers and other relevant parties in schools to spot cyber-bullying and deal with it in accordance with the Education code and Seth’s Law.
To provide tailored policy instruments to identify, define, and, where possible, categorize cyber-bullying.
To program effective and long-term policy solutions for cyber-bullying that will transcend the borders of the school environment and protect students in spaces other than school in accordance with the dictates of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Advocacy Strategy Requirements

It important to start this section with emphasis on the fact that the advocacy strategy in focus is, in effect, a social policy. Hence, in order to achieve the three cardinal objectives above, four primary needs, all within social policy formulation, must be met. These are outlined below:

Fiscal support. The undertaking of this advocacy strategy is both time and capital-intensive. Every single one of the steps explained below requires funding. Hence, it is necessary for the advocates to have fiscal support. It is postulated that the money can come from donations and grants by charitable and affiliate organizations.

Research and design. In order to present an air-tight presentation without any flaws, it is necessary to engage in research on why the strategy being proposed is justified. In the wake of this research, the findings must be compiled and presented as a logic plan. The projected plan for this advocacy strategy is as follows:

Activities Participation Short-term Mid-term Long-term

Investments What to do Whom to reach Short-term results Mid-term results Long-term results

Inadequacies in the existing anti-bullying policy framework in the state of California

Collaborative partnerships with non-school community entities such as clubs in order to establish anti-cyber bullying knowledge and awareness outside of the school environment.

School administrations to enforce ESSA mandate.

Expertise on policy enforcement under the ESSA. Collaborate with schools

Collaborate with community clubs

Develop outreach and awareness programs within affected cohorts

Devise means for parent engagement e.g. through community meetings. School districts

Communities; both general demographics and ethnic/racial or gender/disabled groups

Ultimately, individual children via smaller social units especially families and peer groups Development of working partnerships between the parties mentioned in the preceding sections.

Better knowledge of community-level needs for the entrenchment of the proposed policy

Understanding of how the policy works within ESSA and education code parameters. Improved community and state engagement on cyber-bullying

Enhanced school and community functioning on cyber-bullying Established and fully functional mechanisms for monitoring, addressing, and preventing cyber-bullying.

Improved school and community management of cyber-bullying.

Logic plan for proposed advocacy strategy

Appraisal from and the approval of institutions catering to the target demographic. Schools and other institutions that generally handle the population in focus—everyone under the age of 18—should examine the plan and approve it in order for it to be forwarded. The provisions of the strategy must mirror the desire and aims of the institutions’ anti-bullying efforts and policies.

A platform for presentation and engagement with policy-makers. A meeting or forum will be set up whereby the top policy-makers for the state will engage the advocates on any matters of the policy that may be unclear from scope of coverage, costs of implementation, to compliance issues.

Conclusion

To sum everything up, the state of California is in intensive need of an exhaustive policy specifically targeting cyber bullying. Attention paid to literature on the matter indicates that neither long-standing nor newly developed policies are enough to fix the problem. Existing anti-bullying laws are too general and are almost entirely focused on the school setting, which renders them ineffective in handling cyber-bullying. Even Seth’s Law, the latest significant development in the anti-harassment laws, is not adequate for the challenges currently being experienced, and statistics indicate that the policy is failing in both cyber and traditional bullying. Hence, the advocacy strategy proposed above comes in to fill in the gaps and pay due attention to cyber-bullying. It is vital to note in conclusion that the proposition above is time, human resource, and financially intensive and must be granted the attention and time it requires because its profundity mirrors the scope of the hurdle it is designed for.

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Bullying and its Effects on Social Media

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Indirect communication
Influence on health
Relationship

While some teenagers get affected by the pressure of having to react to posts of their friends or respond to messages, others fear not being in the social loop. Called FOMO (fear of missing out), teens obsessively check their media feeds for updates by friends as they don’t want to miss out on jokes, activities, parties, and gossip. FOMO is also known to lead to depression and anxiety while being a major contributor to teenagers’ heavy use of social media.

It is very common to see children spending great quality of their time using other social media, resulting them to have an Internet addiction. It creates an addictive habit for children due to constantly checking the news feed from different social sites. Adolescents are the one who gets addicted to social media easily because they end up spending hours and each day watching videos, photos and other contents that are posted by their online friends. This addiction can disrupt their other interaction and activities, such as school works, study, and relationships, and other daily routines because they end up wasting a substantial amount of time on social media.

Nowadays people are being obsessed with social media where there are many possibilities of losing touch with realities resulting them to become an anti-social person because they are spending lots of time on social media than interacting and communicating directly with people. There are also a lot of negative consequences if you use social media all day. The theory has suggested that teenagers are spending a substantial amount of time on social media that they cannot even do other important activities without checking their social accounts. “It seems that the more technology we acquire, the more stressed out we become. According to the experts, almost 20% of people with social media accounts cannot go more than three hours without checking them” (Gosselt, De Jong, and Van Hoof, 2012). The researcher also studies that media can be harmful to children because it might contain violence guidelines which can influence their behaviors and mental process.

Some of the children do realize that they are wasting their time on social media, and it can affect their mood negatively, but they are not stopping from using them because they become an obsession with themselves and end up posting endless updates and selfies which can increase the narcissism in adolescences. Their moods depend on how their photos are being appreciated by others in media, and they become depressed when no one pays attention as they expected. Having their own social sites account makes children more self-centered and depression. In social media, selfies become the most popular thing to take for adolescences on their phones. They would take selfies and make stories every hour and posting it on social media. These behaviors strongly linked to narcissism and it can cause obsessions with looks. Therefore, some selfie addicts have done many dangerous things which have ended fatally because they are participating and filming themselves in social media challenges that involve engaging in absurd or dangerous activities, such as taking pictures with dangerous animals, climbing the high building, playing with fire, and many more.

Indirect communication

Social media can keep the children occupied hours and hours until the way to their past bedtime. They keep themselves too busy that they are not communicating face to face with others because they are more likely to do texting or chatting on their phones. In the modern era, children are learning to do their communication while looking at the screen resulting them to missed out real-time interaction where they can learn from each other. In addition, children are missing out the critical social skills because every answer is provided in social media that children can just look up without discussing or communicating with others.

Influence on health

Social media has bad effects on children mental health such as it can cause them anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), impulsive disorder, and loneliness. Children might start to compare their life with others because social media is more than just sharing things with others. In addition, spending too much time on online can cause illnesses such as eye problems, neck pain, and lower back problems, and many more. The effects on children are much stronger and it can also delay their emotional and social development. In addition, using various social media lead to a decline in subjective of children’s well-being because some become anxious and moody as they see that the lives of their friends are better than theirs, even though they may know that their representation is idealized. The more they relay in social media, they feel worse on a daily basis because they feel less satisfied with their lives compared to others.

Teens are also seemed to be suffering from depression after spending too much time on social networking sites. Furthermore, social media platforms had a negative effect on the brains of adolescence because it can infantilize their brains since they do not develop skills to face life and have no guidance to teaches them critical skills and support them mentally and emotionally. In extreme cases of cyberbullying, many adolescences had made an attempt to suicide because they fall depression from bullying. Children are always being attacked through social media in messaging or other sites. This situation can lead “child acquires from viewing violence are likely to influence the child's behavior in the long term” (Bushman and Huesmann, 2006). They would eventually start to feel their lives is meaningless and hopeless resulting them to think that suicide is the only path out of the torments.

Relationship

Screen relationships also detract real-life relationships and building social skills in children and teenagers. If they rely on social media, children will grow up without learning verbal cues and facial gestures of people. Social interaction is critical to developing the skills needed to understand other people’s moods and emotions. Hence children who would grow up interacting with social media may turn out to be poor at communicating with others.

Another article’s evidence suggests bullying can increase the aggression in adolescence and have a problem on their behaviors such as drug use, delinquency, and violence. In addition, the article discusses bullying can relate to depression in adolescence and suggested that it can influence their relationships. Children with bullying experiences are more likely to demonstrate aggressive or violent behavior because they are not able to self-regulate their behavior. They also have trouble asking or accepting help from others, and they also have poor academic performance because they get ignored by their peers. In this situation, they might develop self-esteem issues, depression, and stress which makes children less likely to focus their energy on academic achievement and social skills. Due to social media effect on child development, children are lacking the ability to engage and have interaction with others and themselves. They end up living for social media feeds while missing out on the actual experience of the event, which may be a spending time with their families or friends.

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Causes of Cyberbullying

We can’t deny the fact that cyber-bullying is becoming more and more of an issue, as new online platforms are being created. Simply put, bullies now can be bullies in a lot more places. Cyber-bullying can certainly be devastating and harmful to one’s mental health as an effect, also the affects it has on a person’s future. Many people suffer from psychological issues due to being bullied in person or through a virtual platform, but what I’m interested in is the cause of Cyber-bullying or bullying in general not the effects.

What makes a bully who he is? We all have thought about it. Why would a person go out of his way to cause misery and sadness to others? Well reasons do vary from person to another, but all of them have something in common which is problems. Yes, problems are what creates the bully, whether they are family, social or even mental problems. According to Dr. Martyn Wild a cyber safety expert says” Cyber-bullying is poised to turn into the biggest online concern, already affecting up to 35% of all children.” One more thing Cyber-bullies share is cowardness, they all hide behind a screen or a phone may it be a 20th century computer screen. It’s the fact that they are anonymous and aren’t physically involved is what makes them comfortable doing what they do.

It has been proven that family issues are one of the major causes of bullying, albeit face to face or cyber bullying. For instance, problems within a household can affect the behavior of individuals in the outside world. To illustrate, a bad divorce could be a cause where the parents are not raising their children properly or not giving them the attention they need. Which might lead to the feeling of being unrecognized and cause need of attention. Moreover, abuse or suppression can feed a person plenty of negative feelings and cause them mental problems and resulting in an emotional discharge, that can be translated to hurting others physically or in an incorporeal manner through the media or online.

It is believed by many that the brain plays a role in this matter, whether it’s through mental problems or fulfilling one’s desires and satisfying one’s ego. What I think is a cause too is superiority complex which is a disorder that makes a person insecure and anxious about their shortcomings and weaknesses, consequently harassing others to hide where they lack. Another related matter is “schadenfreude” which means according to Wikipedia “is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.” That alone is a problem that needs fixing and a solution of its own. Some might say these issues are related to social status and social relations, and that takes us to the next cause.

Establishing social relations in the real world or the social media might push people to bully others, be it to draw attention or to maintain popularity. Simply put, it is to hide a person’s failure by pointing out other’s failures and showing superiority over others, and that brings us back to the “superiority complex”. A lot of the times it’s just a simple feeling like envy, that alone could push some to harass and hinder said person’s reputation, just to take them down and take away what they have from them.

To conclude, we can categorize the causes to two categories personal and social, and the latter could be divided to two parts. The first, family limited and the second, with society online or offline. Also, bullies are the result of conflict, whether it’s mental or social, so let’s not fight fire with fire by blaming it all on the bullies themselves. In the end, we can see that the bullies are not always the convicts, sometimes they are victims of life’s bullying. We should broaden our view on matters such as this matter to see the whole picture and make a righteous and just judgement without discriminating any side.

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Cyberbullying: how Can i Help?

Bullying can be described as repeated harmful events, which over time are directed at usual persons that are carried out by one or several other people. These are people who may be stronger than the victim. These harmful events can be aggressive physical contact in the form of fights and shoving, and verbal threats. Behaviors of a bully will consist of actions such as hitting, kicking, pushing, teasing, or threatening an individual, also bullying can be relational social segregation, harming friendships, spreading rumors, although physical bullying cannot happen using technology, both verbal and relational bullying can be accomplished using a variety of technological tools. Bullying is a national problem that affects people from everywhere around the world. Bullying involves emotional and physical intimidation that is caused by another party. With the rapid increase in electronic or online communication, bullying is no longer limited to schools; virtual reality has been implicated as a new risky environment for bullying.

Cyber bullying is a form of bullying that is done through electronic devices. The internet has been a very common place for bulling to occur. In a previous paper I wrote I stated, “Cyber bullying occurs when children get on the internet and post thing about another child. This can be on social media and other internet sources. This one is big to me because things that are posted on the internet can be viewed by a large range of individuals. It is also hard to get the things deleted once it Is shared. Children who are bullied sustain some sort of injury. The injury maybe internal or external. They also may fear telling anyone because of what may happen. Some children who experience this may become depressed, and others think about harming their selves or others.”

When we speak of cyber bullying and it affects, we must also include ways to counsel, prevent, and build a trusting relationship with each victim. Trust is very important to individuals who experience such torment. Trust and understanding goes a long way. Schools are over populated, and parents are either too busy or nonexistent, forcing kids to feel alone. Most children who cyber bully are also dealing with issues that no one pays attention to. The victim is both parties rather we want to accept it or not. “A current problem and concept, cyber-victimization, is defined as the situation in which one or more individuals are exposed to harmful behavior personally or individuals experience it as legal entity through communication technologies (Ar?cak, 2011). Cyber bullying; by a group or individual, with computer or mobile phone, etc. is defined as an aggressive, intentional harmful behavior carried out by means of communication (Smith et al. 2008).

Cyber bullying or cyber victimization can be seen in various forms. Some of those; online fighting, harmful activities, libel, identity change, unauthorized use of information, provocation, cyber harassment and exclusion (Willard, 2007). Unlike real victimization and bullying, there is no physical interaction between the cyber victim and the cyber bully. In this regard, cyber victimization and bullying have become an international problem (Antoniadou & Kokkinos, 2015; Ayas & Horzum, 2012; Bhat, 2008; Boronenko, Menshikov & Marzano, 2013; Keith & Martin, 2005).

The impact of cyber bullying on the victim can be more damaging for a few reasons. The first one can be more damaging than the attacker that keeps his identity hidden. Second, because there is no direct relationship with the victim, the attacker may tend to feel less empathy or regret. Third, Mass media can reach a large audience in a short time. Finally, adult control is limited because the number of adults using the internet is less (Dempsey, Sulkowski, Nichols & Storch, 2009; Kokkinos, Antoniadou & Markos, 2014; Smith & Slonje, 2010)”.

I mentor children who has lost a parent rather its by violence, sickness or due to their own selfish reasons. My children I mentor trust me and I do everything in my power to ensure them that they are loved. As I was sitting in my office, I received a call from a young girl who was referred to me by another child I mentor. She stated she has been dealing with bullying for a long time and today she feels like she does not want to live anymore. Hearing this made my heart drop. This student was only eleven and was forced to feel like the world was to much for her to deal with. I told her I would love to talk to her and help her deal with what she is feeling. I told her I would come to the school if she would like and talk to her outside of school. She asked can we meet outside of school first I said yes and told her to give me the number to her parents. I told her I will get their permission and asked would it be a problem. She said no. I told her I will see her shortly. I called her parents to inform them I was a mentor for their daughter and asked if it would be ok if I meet with their daughter today. They agreed. Later I meet with the student and took her out to an ice-cream parlor. I told her whenever she was ready, I’m here to listen. She begins telling me what she has been going through.

When she arrived at school everyone stood around laughing and pointing at her. Unaware as to what was going on, she ran to the bathroom crying. Her friend which is also my mentee found her and told her what was gong on. She told her that there is a picture that was posted on social media comparing her face to that of a toad. Due to her acne she was picked on a lot. The friend then said the picture was shares all over Facebook and text messages. Someone made copies of the picture and also posted it in school. she cried more and told her friend she wishes she can die, that way she will stop being picked on. Her friend cried with her and asked he would she try and talk to someone. She then said that no one ever does anything so killing her self will solve the problem for her. Her friend then told her about me and begged her to try and talk to me. She agreed and called. After she told me everything, I asked what it was that she feels should be done. She said she just wants it to stop, she wants to be able to live life without the fear of being on. It was not her fault her acne was bad, but it makes her feel like she was very ugly. Heartbroken I looked at her and cried. I begin to give her a little about myself. I assured her that I will do everything in my power to help you deal with everything. She asked me why to do I care so much that I will be willing to help her. I simply told her because I am you. My job is to make sure children never feel unloved. If I can show children that even when you feel like no one understands and love seems to be distant god will always make it better. She said her parents are always to busy for her to talk to.

The next day I got I went straight to the school. I talked to teachers’ principals and counselors. Everyone seemed to be surprised. That was an issue. I walked in the school and saw a picture on the floor. How is it that they can say they had no knowledge? I showed them the picture and asked did they see this? They stated yes but they assumed it was a joke. With fury in my eyes I respectfully said how do you consider this a joke, this is total torment and bullying. Did you know it was also posted on social media? Did you ever pulled the girl to the side and ask how she feels about it? Their answer was no they have such a big case load that they didn’t think that it was serious. I informed them they can either investigate it thoroughly, and deal with it properly, or I can have people come in and deal with it, and that the choice was theirs.

Some people would stop there and assume their job was done, but I did not. See there is a greater purpose to this journey and she needed to be understood. I meet with her three times a week after school. She opened more and let me in. She said can feel love and can talk to me about anything. Her thoughts of suicide no longer existed. She knows she is beautiful, and hand made by god.

We talked about ways to stop bullying. If more parents are active in their children’s life bullying can be reduced. At eleven years old why is a phone or social media a possession. I understand a child having a phone because it helps with their safety, but internet should not be accessible. Phones should only be allowed before school and after. Restrictions need to be placed on children’s phones and computers. We should make the counseling of parents and children a high priority. School counselors should be more open to asking if the student is doing ok and if anything is bothering them. She said schools also need to step up. Most bullying happens because the schools don’t care enough to deal with it. If strict actions are being made to those who participate in bulling it may also be reduce. It takes a team to make these revision and put the action in place. Action means change.

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Cyberbullying Among Teens

Before the internet, bullying was a problem, a problem that occurred in school hallways and popular hangout spots. Face-to-face bullying could only reach so far, the victims could choose to walk away and find a safe place. Adolescents and teenagers were safe in the privacy of their own homes. Hateful words and physical harm could not enter the walls of their own bedrooms. Now with rapidly growing technology bullying knows no boundaries. Cyberbullying has become a world-wide problem that can be damaging to teens and can lead to suicide, depression, self-mutilation and low self-esteem.

Social media is a large part of everyone’s live especially teenagers. In today’s society cellphones and other electronic devices are the main form of communication. Teenagers depend upon their electronic device and it seems as if the media has taken over their lives.

“It is estimated that 93% of adolescents, ages 12 to 17 years, use the internet and 75% of this population have their own cell phone. Twenty-five percent of those having a cell phone use it for social media.” “Adolescents spend an average of 10 hours a day using various forms of media.” (Burnett)

Did you know that middle schoolers use more media than any other age groups? The overuse of social media has been linked to lower academic achievement grades, lower attachment to school and shorter attention spans. Social media can also lead adolescents to becoming the target of cyberbullies. How common is cyberbullying, 15-22% of teenagers admit to cyberbullying others and about 1 in 3 youth report they have been a victim of bullying.

While social media and the internet has its drawbacks it also has positive aspects as well. Social media allows teenagers to engage with others from different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds without the use of social media they might not have been given this opportunity. The internet as well as social media has great educational benefits when used correctly. Social media is also a way to spread social awareness about issues these teenagers believe need to be addressed.

Cyberbullying is a controversial matter that must be addressed. Unlike face-to-face bullying, cyberbullying cannot be avoided. When you are being bullied face-to-face you can choose to walk away or ignore the situation, but with cyberbullying no matter how long you turn off the internet or how long you chose to avoid the situation once you turn back on the cellphone or log back into social media the words and comments will be there waiting for you. The use of the internet allows a bully to send harassing messages through e-mail or instant messaging: post obscene, insulting, and slanderous messages in chat rooms.

An organization called stopcyberbullying.org describes cyberbullying as “when an adolescent or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another adolescent or teen using the internet, interactive and digital technologies.” (Wiredkids). Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that uses technology such as text messages, apps and social media to cause a person to feel embarrassment, shame and guilt. Cyberbullies can use social media 24 hours a day to harass their target no matter where they are. Cyberbullies use social media to intentionally inflict mental harm to any chosen victim for no other reason than their own personal gratification. Cyberbullying can take many forms publically or privately including social media, text messages and instant messages. Cyberbullying can not be blamed on social media sites. These networking sites do not create cyberbullies nor do they encourage the actions of a cyberbully.

I bet your wondering who a cyberbully is. How can you identify a cyberbully? Well the answer to that is that a cyberbully is a person who torments others using social media, the internet or any other digital technology. Cyberbullies are typical known to the victim. The interesting thing about cyberbullies is that in most cases they have been victims of bullying to.

Cyberbullying is not limited to the United States it has become a worldwide problem. It is fast growing and as of now no one seems to know how to stop it. The US government has already imposed several laws regarding cyberbullying. If you are caught cyberbullying depending upon which state you live in you could be punished by being expelled, fined and even receive jail time for a misdemeanor or a felony.

Cyberbullying is not just posting hateful and rude comments on someone’s social media page. Cyberbullying can be threatening to hurt or kill someone online, posting mean or hurtful pictures or videos on the internet. Pretending to be someone else online in order to obtain false or hurtful information about someone or even creating a webpage about someone where others can post mean or hurtful things about them. Despite the absence of physical harm cyberbullying can be more harmful than traditional bullying. Cyberbullying is limited, it can be viewed by anyone which can cause the victim unforeseen harm to not only the victim but to family and friends as well.

The harmful effects of cyberbullying are not just a cause for concern for parents but for educators as well. Victims of cyberbullies are unable to escape the bullying can lead to several psychosocial problems but psychological problems as well. Depression, anxiety, substance abuse and heightened anger disposition are only a few of the problems that victims of cyberbullying can experience.

What can we do when we notice the signs of cyberbullying? The first thing to do would be to talk to the victim. Ask questions and learn what is happening. Find out who is involved and how long the situation has been going on. The next step would be to report the bullying. Most schools have policies put into place for cyberbullies. The last step would be to offer support. Sometimes all a victim needs are to know that someone is there for them. Let them know that they are not alone and that you are there to help.

So how do we prevent cyberbullying? The first step is to learn the warning signs that someone you know, or love is a victim of cyberbullying. Many signs of cyberbullying are most often noticed when the victim is around an electronic device. The victim can start showing signs of avoidance when around social situations. They may delete their social media accounts and they can become withdrawn and depressed and lose interest in activities and people they once liked.

It is important to teach teenagers and adolescents what they can do with if they were to experience cyberbullying. It is important that they keep all the messages, pictures and videos and anything else the bully has sent or posted on websites. It is also important that they know that they can talk about what is happening. By talking about the issues at hand it makes it easier to handle the situation and the victim will not feel like they are all alone. Victims also need to learn that it is not ok to retaliate. It is tempting to return the bullying but by retaliating the victim might make the situation worse.

Cyberbullying has and is increasing as our technology increases. It is important that teachers and parents are aware of the situation and teach teenagers how to handle the situation if it should ever arise. We will never be able to completely stop cyberbullying but maybe by being more educated and better aware of the situation we can help those that are being victimized by cyberbullies.

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How Physical Intimidation Influences the Way People are Bullied

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Abstract
Review of Literature
Prevelance of Cyberbullying
Effects of Cyberbullying
RQ1: How does the lack of the physical intimidation effect people’s inclination to cyber bully?

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore some of the different variables that influence people to become cyber bullies. The study seeks to answer the research question, How does the lack of the physical intimidation affect people’s inclination to cyber bully? The goal is to analyze the demographics of cyber bullies and determine whether or not there is a physical influence on this growing trend. Since the beginning of time people have always had to deal with bullies. Just like anything else, however, things tend to evolve with technology. With the evolution of social media and technology some adolescence as well as adults are simply unable to escape harassment from their peers in school and in the workplace.

This social phenomenon is what has come to be known as cyberbullying. According to Willard (2004) there are eight different forms of cyberbullying, which include Flaming (online fights), Harassment (sending vulgar messages), Denigration (posting gossip), impersonation, outing (sharing peoples secrets), trickery (tricking someone into sharing secrets), exclusion, and cyberstalking. The platforms for this to occur have become countless, from well-known social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, to smaller sites that allow you remain anonymous such as Yik Yak and ask.com. The days are gone of having to be the biggest meanest kid in the schoolyard to hurt others. Now it doesn’t matter your size, age, gender, or social standing if you want to bully someone. People can now create their own anonymous personas or simply continue to bully others online after they have left school or work.

There have been several instances in the news over the last few years of people who have taken their own lives due to the constant ridicule from their peers. Because of this researchers have started to take notice of this new social issue and have performed numerous studies analyzing different aspects of cyberbullying such as the types of people who bully, the prevalence of cyberbullying, and the effects on the victims, but one thing that hasn’t been studied is whether or not the lack of physical intimidation effects people likelihood to become cyberbullies. This study is going to include extensive research into the motivations to cyberbully as well as its influence on the aggressors and victims and the relationships between the two. We will also examine the different techniques cyberbullies employ as well as the techniques that victims use in order to cope with the harassment.

Review of Literature

Prevelance of Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is something that is has become a new social phenomenon in today’s society. It can often times leave students unable to escape their bullies and leave them feeling alone and helpless. Faucher, Jackson, and Cassidy(2014) performed a study on 1925 students across four Canadian universities that found 24.1 percent of students had been the victims of cyberbullying over the last twelve months. These shocking numbers show that nearly one in every four people have been the victims of this phenomenon. This statistic is interesting however because when compared to studies that were done amongst younger age students you see that the numbers are drastically different. Wegge, Vandebosch, and Eggermont(2014) found that among 1,458 13-14 year old students that considerably less students reported being cyberbullied. This is very similar to what Vanderbosch and Van Cleemput (2009) found among 2052 students in the 12-18 ranges which concluded that 11.1 percent of students had been victims of cyberbullying.

This research concludes that cyberbullying appears to be more prevelant in students as they get older. Wegge et al. (2014) also noted that 30.8 percent had been victims of traditional bullying. This raises the question as to why it seems to be less prevalent among younger students. Is it possible that they simply don’t have as much access to the tools of cyberbullying that students at the university level have, or they possibly aren’t as technologically advances as their older peers? It continues to raise questions about the issue of cyberbullying as well as what classifies the perpetrators as well as what are their reasons for harming others. The types of people who bully. An important factor when analyzing cyberbullying is trying to understand the types of people who are the aggressors. The first thing that needs to be discussed when analyzing this is the simple matter of gender when it comes to who is generally the aggressor. Slonje and Smith (2008) found that when it comes to cyberbullying males are more often than not the aggressors with males being reported as the cyberbully far more often than females. Slonje et al (2008) also found that 36.2 percent of students were unaware of the gender of their aggressors.

This is intriguing because for one its is the same percentage as the number of males who bullied, but most importantly because it shows that over 1 in 3 students don’t actually know who is bullying them, which adds to the fear and stigma that is related to cyberbullying and not being able to escape the perpetrators. The types of people who are victims. Researchers have also conducted various studies on the types of people who are cyberbullied, or what is often referred to as “cybervictomology”. Abeele and Cock (2013) conducted a study, which concluded that the gender of victims varied greatly depending on the form of cyberbullying. Abeele et al. (2013) found that males are more likely to be on the receiving end of direct cyberbullying while females are more likely to be the victims of indirect cyberbullying such as online gossip among peers. These findings appear to remain true to social social norms where males are viewed as more confrontational and females are often stereotyped as gossipers. While not many studies look at the gender of the victims many studies do research things such as the characteristics of the victims. Faucher et al. (2014) found that there were numerous reasons that people felt they were the victims of cyberbullying such as their personal appearance, interpersonal problems, as well as simply having discrepancies about their views. Davis, Randall, Ambrose, and Orand (2015) also conducted a study about victims and their demographics, which looked at the reasons people, were cyberbullied.

Some of the results in the Davis et al. (2015) study addressed other reasons for being bullied in which they found that 14 percent of victims had been bullied because of factors such as their sexual orientation. These are all very important because it fits the profile of the traditional bully that many people envision but it shows that it transfers over into the cyber world as well. This leads on further questions about the relationship between the two and how the cyberbullying is influencing where and how the harassment is continuing. The relationship between bully and victim. The relationship between aggressor and victim is also something that has been heavily research among professionals. Beran and Li (2007) conducted a study that involved 432 middle school students and concluded that just under half of the studnets had been victims of cyberbullying as well as traditional bullying. This is true across multiple studies. Wegge et al. (2014) also concluded that people who were bullied in traditional manners had a much higher likelihood to become victims of cyberbullying.

Another interesting relationship between bully and victim is that studies have also shown that people who are victims are likely to become aggressors in the online world. Beran et al. (2007) confirms this by stating, “students who are bullied through technology are likely to us technology to bully others”. Faucher et al. (2014) also found similar results claiming that male and female students decided to bully people online because they were bullied first. Research has also been done that looks at how the bullies find their victims. Wegge et al. (2014) studied the perpetrators preferences in victims and found that 27 percent were in the same grade, 14.2 percent were in different grades and a staggering 49.6 percent were not schoolmates of the bullies. This evidence somewhat contradicts that of the other studies that state victims are generally bullied at school and at home because it shows that nearly half of the bullies prefer to bully people they don’t go to school with and possibly have do not know at all. This continues to build and add to the idea of cyberbullying in that it allows bullies to create their own personas and images in order to try and intimidate and influence others without actually providing a physical intimidation factor.

Effects of Cyberbullying

The first part of this literature review focused on the demographics of the bullies and their victims, but now we will focus on the lasting effects and the trauma it brings to the victims as well as the different forms of cyberbullying. While the platforms used are different the lasting effects that the bullying has on the victims are very similar. Faucher et al. (2014) concluded that one of the main effects that cyberbullies had on university students was that they were unable to accomplish some of their school assignments. While many people think of effects of bullying to be simply depression or low self esteem this study brought light to a much different more unexpected issues. Beran et al. (2007) also found similar responses from victims of cyberbullying claiming that they often didn’t achieve the same marks in school and had lower concentration. These findings indicate that the lasting impact that a cyberbully has on their victims is often more harmful than what most people can see on the surface. Pieschl, Porsch, Kahl, and Klockenbusch (2013) found that cybervictims generally were less distressed during the second confrontation with a cyberbully. This interesting finding indicates that victims of cyberbullies may actually become desensitized to the aggression over time lessening the effects of the bullying.

Victims coping techniques. When being faced by a bully it is important that victims learn to cope and move on from their experiences in order to prevent them from suffering in their personal and professional life like some of the victims in previous studies. Davis et al. (2014) conducted a study on victim coping techniques where they broke the techniques into two distinct categories, which were behavioral and cognitive strategies. Davis et al. (2014) found that 74 percent of participants preferred behavioral strategies and of those 74 percent, 69 percent of those people found the strategies to be effective. These behavioral strategies included seeking social support, making a creative outlet, or ignoring and blocking the bully. Because of the growing trend of cyberbullying there have been people who have developed different programs to help raise awareness for cyberbullying as well as offer help to the victims. One of these programs is known as Cyberprogram 2.0. Garaigordobil and Martinez-Valderrey (2015) conducted a study testing the effectiveness of this program and found that it was effective in decreasing the amount of traditional as well as cyberbullying, but also and more importantly it raised empathy among classmates towards the victims of these actions.

This is a big step in combatting bullying because peers are constantly influencing each other. If the general consensus among the class is that bullying is not funny and not right because they empathize with the victims than it can go a long way in changing the social norm. If the attention is not longer given to the bully by classmates and victims it could potentially cut back on the frequency of this act. With that being said it raises the question instead of trying to cope, why not just remove yourself from the situation all together and not give the bully what they desire? Arntfield (2005) discussed the risk associated with using social media and concluded that “intrinsic rewards that were not tied directly to winning as much as they were to fantasies of power, celebrity, sexuality, and elevated social status that came with participating, win or lose.”. This conclusion is one that is very accurate and relevant to the way adolescence as well as university level students think in today’s society. The fact of the matter is in order to fit in and be considered “cool” amongst your peers you need to be on social media to understand many of the things that are talked about amongst students. Whether it be trending hashtags, viral videos, or popular memes these are all things that are commonly shared and talked about between peers.

While students may run the risk of being bullied on these sites, they also run the risk of being bullied for not knowing the newest updates in our culture, it is truly a viscous cycle. Forms of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying gives the bully a much larger spectrum to choose from when it comes to how exactly they want to intimidate their victims which may be why it is often easier for them to carry out the act. Of all the different ways to cyberbully Faucher et al. (2014) found the most common platforms for cyberbullying to be social media, text messaging, and email which were used to bully students about half of the time followed up by blogs forums and chat rooms which were 25 percent. This is no surprise that social media is the most common platform for cyberbullying because it can allow for the bully to remain completely anonymous to your average victim. This allows people who may not fit the mold of your average bully to create a fake account and build their own persona in order to bully others. Multiple studies also address a critical factor of using social media or the Internet to bully others, which is that; the photos or hurtful comments, can remain in cyberspace virtually forever. Davis et al. (2014) mentions how they received viewed several responses that talked about “how their traditional bullying experience would have been magnified if they had occurred in todays digital era”. Faucher et al. (2014) also talk about how cyberbullying has a longer “shelf life” than your average bullying.

This plays such a huge role because with the aggressive material on the internet it can often be revisited and the pain can constantly be brought back to light for the victims making the experience that much more traumatic. Social media is very prevelant among cyberbullies but there is also extensive research done on cell phones and the role they play in the act of cyberbullying. Abeele et al. (2013) studied various aspects of mobile phone bullying and found that the most prevalent type was gossiping via text message, followed by gossiping over the phone, and concluded with threatening others over text message. Abeele et al. (2013) also found that girls were more often than not the perpetrators of gossiping while boys made slightly more threats via cell phone. This numbers tend lean towards the stereotype of females being more of gossipers and males generally being more aggressive and physical. This is also interesting because shows that that society’s stereotypes appear to remain true even in a cyberworld.

RQ1: How does the lack of the physical intimidation effect people’s inclination to cyber bully?

Method

If I were to conduct this study I think the best way to do so would be by a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. I would choose to use survey research as well as focus groups in order to study these behaviors and why they happen as opposed to traditional bullying. By using survey research I would be able to uncover whether or not people are actually inclined to cyberbully due to physical factors and the focus groups would be beneficial in trying to understand why people become cyberbullies. By using the two different types of research it also will allow for the study to be more diverse and look at different angles of cyberbullying, which will result in having a better understanding of this phenomenon.

Sample Selection

For my sample I would choose to use a convenience sample. The age I want to study would be 15 to 23 year olds. I would reach out to the local high schools as well as the local universities and use the students who were willing to participate in the study. Based on the number of students in Escambia county between high school and college aged students I would like to have five thousand survey responses and two thousand five hundred volunteers for focus groups. I would allow students to participate in both aspects of the study if they were interested in doing so.

Procedure

For my study it will be important to base a 10-15 question survey on more than simply if a student is a cyberbully or how often they bully others but rather physical aspects of the bully. The survey would be completely anonymous and would ask questions about whether they have cyberbullied someone before, followed up with questions about gender, body size, and the gender and body types of their victims. For the focus groups I would split the participants up in groups of 6-8 based on age and gender. I would focus on questions about why they may or may not be inclined to bully others online. I would then combine the data I collected and use it in order to answer my research question.

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Cyberbullying and Internet

Many people around the world now have access to the internet. Teenagers use the internet for many reasons such as socializing, education, and to maintain personal and professional relationships. However, some teenagers misuse the internet for wrong reasons such as cyberbullying and racisms through social media. Teenagers should only be allowed to use social media only if they are using it the appropriate reasons. Cyberbullying and racisms happen even to this day because of immature behaviors that teenagers do not realized could cause an effect. There should be a limitation with social media to prevent cyberbullying and racisms. Social media is a bad influence for teenagers. What is social media? Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking is known as social media. However, social media is being used in ways that shape world culture, education and more. Teenagers are often harassing each other through the media. Phoebe prince hanged herself because girls in her school reportedly called her a “whore” and a “bitch” viciously harassing her in person and on Facebook (Holladay 1).

If you are not careful, unscrupulous people can target you for cyber bullying and harassment on social sites. By partaking in social networking sites, you are opening yourself up to cyberbullying, lack of productivity, mental health issues and lower grade. Even though there might be several good people out there, there are lots of bad people as well. There are also chances that someone could go online and post an inappropriate picture of him or her that is taken out of context. What might seem innocent enough soon becomes the focus of everyone’s jokes and harassment toward the person. You cannot control what other people post online. Normani Kordei, a member of the girl group on the rise of Fifth Harmony wrote, “I’ve not just been cyber bullied, I’ve been racially cyber bullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially charged that I can’t subject myself any longer to the hate” (Hess 1). Racists used inappropriate words and pictures to insult her. Social media has become the easiest platform to insult or harass someone. Teenagers do not take cyberbully seriously.

Cyberbully is the negative use of technology to harass, humiliate, and threaten people. Life project found that 26% of teens have been harass through their mobile phone either by calls or text messages. Phoebe's reasons for taking her own life were complicated, she struggled with depression and had even attempted suicide once before (Holladay 4). Social Media makes bullying easier for those who are afraid to face to face bully. Lots of teenagers bully their friends by making fake social media account or emails which is easier rather than in person. Also, the adolescent is also a transitional phase where teenagers become vulnerable and have to deal with emotional and physical changes. At this phase it’s hard to deal with what is right and what is wrong. Most of the children do it for fun and relaxation. Teenagers think they can be anonymous on what they do on the internet. Cell phone has been banned in 69% of today’s classrooms. The reason is obvious, students will misuse them to cheat, use textese in place of Standard English, cyberbullying and sexting (Thomas and McGee19). Due to the excess use of social media grades of teens are dropping down. Teenagers have admit being using social media during homework reduces the quality of their work.

The students who used social media while studying scored lower on tests. Most of the students are found spending time on scrolling through the memes and gifs rather than studying and doing homework. Teachers of classroom fears that cell phones may make it easier for students to engage in certain inappropriate behaviors (Thomas and McGee). Majority of the posts are extremely insignificant and unimportant to our world. Social media is a negative impact for teenagers. Hess stated on her article the “Ghostbusters” star Jones temporarily quit twitter after weathering a deluge of racist abuse (1). There racist abusers are teenager’s fandom of the certain bands group. Social media has teenagers spending countless hours sitting in front of a screen scrolling through other’s people’s lives instead of being productive. Zayn Malik, a member of one direction was being threaten with death and slurs like “terrorist” from the so called fans (Thomas and McGee 2). This comments that teenagers make are so ridiculous. Racisms is not right, and it is never right to call other names. Yet, no actions have been taken with issues like this through social media. Sexting has become common among teenagers. One in five teens have reported sending a nude or seminude photo of themselves to someone in text message (Thomas and McGee 21). The average teenager spends a minimum of 2 hours and 20 minutes on social media every day.

One in five teens have reported sending a nude or seminude photo of themselves to someone in a text message (Thomas and McGee 21). The use of emoji has also become the new trend of cyber bullying. Emoji’s of middle finger, gun, children face with bandages and many other can be used for bullying (Froeschle 383). Teenagers do not know the impact of what they post or send. At some point someone will search for your name and what shows up can sink your reputation. Teenagers must know they are making a choice every time they engage with social media. Slangs words are used everywhere because teenagers think using slang words is easy. Many people, educators included, believe that text ease is destroying the student’s ability to write which can affect students writing skills. Social media has teenagers spending countless hours sitting in front of a screen scrolling through other people's lives. When teenager sees a picture of someone that has passed away on Facebook, instead of calling and asking, they just type “RIP” and a crying emoji.

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Cyberbullying Case Study

Contents

Introduction
Methods
Results
Conclusion

Introduction

The article explores the association between the involvement in traditional, cyber forms or bullying, and internalizing difficulties/ challenges. It explores many forms of victimization and aggression which are most detrimental, the traditional form of bullying or cyber bullying. It also explores which of the two has the most negative impact from bullies, victims, and bully-victims. The article investigates the association between the involvement in cyberbullying, more traditional form of bullying being either the victim of a bully and the depressive symptomatology and suicidal ideation.

Methods

The methodology used in the article was the three self-report, paper and pencil measures were completed by participants. The three measures, tapping involvement in bullying, depressive symptomatology and suicidal ideation. The rates of completion of all measures were found with less than .25 % of the data in total missing and 3 % of any variable having missing data. Given the low amount of missing data, the variable mean was used for imputation purposes (Tabachnick and Fidell 2001). The study sample consisted of 399 students ranging from 8-10th grade enrolled in an urban high school in southern British Columbia and out of the 399 students 228 were female and 171 were male. Students who participated in the study were predominantly Asian Canadian and most cane from an intact family and 15 percent of participants came from a single parent home. Participants received parental consent along with their agreement to participate in the study. Upon the researchers gained approval from the institutional review board and the school board research committee.

Participants were then recruited to participate in a single group testing session lasting 50-60 minutes. After this, 48 of the participants responses indicated severe depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. Those students were offered support from their high school counselors, and all participants were given youth crisis hotlines, and other mental health resources available to them. Participants experiences with bullying, as either a perpetrator or victim, were evaluated using a 10-item self-report measure adapted (in consultation with local school staff) from self-report measures originally developed by Olweus (1993). Students were given definitions of physical bullying such as someone hitting, shoving, kicking, spitting or beating up others and electronic bullying with examples such as using a computer, email, text messages, or pictures to threaten or hurt someone’s feelings, single out, embarrass, or make someone look bad, spread rumors or reveal secrets about someone. Students were asked to indicate how often they have taken part in bullying in the past year on a 5-point scale.

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff 1977) was used to assess symptoms of depression. This 20-item scale was developed to assess levels of depressive symptomatology and has been used extensively in previous research with both normative and clinical adolescent samples (Prinstein et al. 2001; Roberts et al. 1990), with good internal consistency (? range = .87–.92 across studies). Participants were asked to respond to a list of statements indicating some of the ways they have felt and/ or behaved in the last week. To capture variations in the complexity and severity of suicidal thoughts among victimized youth, the present study used the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire—JR (Reynolds 1987) to assess student’s thoughts about suicide over the past month. The SIQ-JR is a 15-item measure developed for use with adolescents in grades 7–9, although it may be used with older adolescents (Reynolds and Mazza 1994). Participants were asked to complete a survey, and students were asked to indicate how many times they have had felt like they wanted to kill themselves and how many times they thought killing themselves would solve a problem. The responses on the survey ranged from 0-6, 0 being never and 6 almost being every day.

Results

After researchers explored the relationship between cyber bullying and internalizing difficulties, the results indicate that cyber victimization and cyberbullying contribute to depressive symptomatology and suicidal ideation that is accounted for by gender and traditional forms of victimization and bullying. In a related stud, it was found that the (Klomek et al. 2008; Smith et al. 2008; Williams and Guerra 2007), involvement in cyber bullying was found to be less frequent than other forms of bullying. A unique association has been found between internalizing problems and involvement in traditional forms of bullying (being involvement as a physical bully). Involvement in bullying is only one of the many factors contributing to depressive symptomatology and suicidal ideation among adolescents.

Conclusion

I feel as though surveys aren’t a good way of getting a true representation for what your researching because some people feel compelled to give the answer they think the researchers are looking for. Although the study used surveys, it was a good article, it opened my eyes and educated me more on bullying and what factors play into bullying. In class we talked about the fake news surrounding the 2016 presidential election and it ties to cyber bullying because the presidential candidates were basically cyberbullied by those fake news stories published all over the web about them. It also ties into media literacy and how we need to educate ourselves on how to properly discern information from being real or fake and question authority instead of liking and sharing. It ties into cyber bullying because children and teens who are bullying others through the internet are posting things online about the victims and other fellow children and teens are sharing it without a doubt.

I feel as though if kids were educated on media literacy it can help cyberbullying because they would stop and question whose spreading this information etc. and in hopes encourage others not to share the misinformation about classmates aimed to intentionally hurt them. Media literacy can’t stop cyberbullying, but there is a possibility it can help in the sense of reporting people’s profiles who are posting nasty things about fellow classmates and today we can post all sorts of blogs about people and get it shared. The spread of misinformation is everywhere, I love that the article discussed depression and suicide because they can play a huge role in bullying and the rates have increased in my opinion based off what I see in schools and my own personal experience with bullying.

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Cyberbullying and Technology Dependence

The year stands 2018, and the technological advancements that this world has seen are unimaginable. From medical technologies, to cars that quite literally drive themselves, contemporary society, especially in that of America, revolves around these advancements. Despite the fact that technology has brought about myriad positive effects, one negative aspect, in part, is the current addiction to social media available through phones and computers. In specific, social media acts as a destructive force to society through cyber bullying, a term created to describe the abuse and verbal assault of people via technology; as society and younger generations grow more addicted to technology and social media, the future of America is at risk of deterring development and losing lives.

Before one can delve into the specifics of one of media’s largest and most impending problems, it is necessary to prove premises that lead to this conclusion. As previously mentioned, cyber bullying has evolved into one of the country’s largest issues due to the fact that contemporary society has grown addicted to technology, phones in specific. This problem may often go overlooked due to the fact that cell phone issues were nonexistent half a decade ago, yet there is a disastrous issue developing with the younger generations. The problem stems from the fact that such young children have such easy access to social media, allowing for them to make statements towards others they do not fully understand the repercussions of yet. Although it may seem hard to understand for older generations, children of today's day and age quite literally are given cell phones before they even fully develop a conscience.

This is proved through a statistic brought about from an experiment conducted in 2010 that references data found in 2004. Despite the fact that many may try to dispute this just for the sake of an argument, the truth is that technology has grown far more advanced in the last 14 years, and younger children have grown far more connected to this technology then before. This is exemplified in connecting jaw dropping data from 2010, whereas there are more than double the amount of children who have phones in every age group then just six years prior to the data collection: “Twice as many children have cell phones now as in 2004. Most teens -- 85% of those aged 14 to 17 -- have cell phones. So do 69% of 11-14 year olds and 31% of kids aged 8-10, according to a 2010 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation” (Davis). As innumerable amounts of children are being given phones at such a young age, children are able to access social medias and make unguided, irresponsible decisions when communicating with others.

Now, opposers of this argument against social media and cyberbullying may ask the question, how does having a cell phone from a young age correlate to cyberbullying? Well, the answer does not lie directly in the fact that children have a phone, for that would be absurd. It would also be an absurd statement to make to say that cell phones for the youth in general are negative and that social media platforms themselves are negative as well. It is not the actual entity that is destructive, in the manner in which this entity can be utilized to bring grief and pain to others. And when does the grief and pain come about the most? When the people behind the screens of these advanced technologies do not understand the relevance and strength of their words due to a lack of social skills and understanding. The problem with this era of technology is not that it allows people to socialize with each other from miles and miles away, but the fact that it deters children, who have cell phones and social medias from a young age, from ever developing the needed social skills to understand the way they should approach people and conversations.

Recent data brought about by a scientific experiment suggests that not only do children spend a prominent amount of the day on their cell phones and social medias, but they actually spend more time on these entities then they do socializing with real people. In other words, these children's’ idea of communicating, by laws of psychology, is ‘normal’ when referencing a text message, inbox, or twitter DM rather than face to face contact. But the true relevance of the statistic is not just in proving that people spend more time on their phone and medias then with other people, the true relevance lies in the fact that Millennials are far worse than any other group: “More millennials (77%) own smartphones — and spend more time on them (over two hours a day) — than any other age group. ‘In fact, millennials spend so much time on their smartphones that they account for 41% of the total time that Americans spend using smartphones, despite making up just 29% of the population,’ the report concluded” (Hill). Because the use of phones and medias is so relevant in younger generations, communication is had between irresponsible children who don't know the relevance of their words.

Understandably, some may refute this point by arguing it doesn't make sense to state that just because kids are young, addicted to their phones, and lose social skills that cyberbullying is a direct problem of media. However, one would answer this retort by stating there is one more key piece to this revolt on media and its’ effect on children through cyberbullying; empathy. By definition, empathy, in colloquial terms, is the ability of a person to feel the emotions of another. To feel compassion for another, due to the fact that you understand, or at least yearn to understand, what that person is feeling as a result of a specific situation. Empathy, throughout life in general, is pivotal and keeps people from saying things and doing things that would be quite destructive to others. For example, mostly all people in their lives has whittled making a comment to someone due to the fact that they have empathy. He or she realizes that this comment would be destructive to their spirit and hurt them, so they refrain from making it. The problem within this is that excessive access to cell phones and social media directly call for a decrease in empathy. Because these children grow to understand communication through the lens of a cell phone, there is no direct and comprehensive way to understand emotion through words.

Instead, the child him or herself decides how they feel this comment or sentence was meant to be constructed. In other words, a person can text another ‘Hey!’, yet one person may read it and think the sender is angry at the while another may read it and think the person is just generally excited. The point is that communication through social medias eliminates a person's ability to feel the raw emotion of another: “Studies show that empathy is negatively affected by technology use, especially social media use, mostly because technology tends to decrease face-to-face interaction. For instance, one study found that individuals who had conversations when their mobile devices were not present, reported higher levels of empathic concern” (Ogan). As children lack empathy, they are more willing to make hateful comments over the phone or social media platform that cause for many children to react in treacherous ways.

Now that one has adequately described the premises that cause for one to make the claim that modern day media has an immense problem, deterring the youth, called cyberbullying, one can now shift the focus to this ideal itself. To clarify, cyberbullying is a very newly created term, so there are various definitions of it depending on where one looks. However, they all revolve around the same ideals- it is the verbal and mental abuse of another through technological resources and programs via these technological sources. The reason in which cyberbullying is so overlooked in contemporary society directly stems from the fact that up until about 25 years ago, cyberbullying was actually impossible. However, older generations should not confuse its’ new nature for relevance, whereas innumerable amounts of children deal with cyberbullying daily:

“Nearly half of all children have been bullied once online and 1 in 4 have been bullied multiple times online…. According to the Pew Research Center, 93 percent of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 surf the internet, and youth spend more time on the internet than any single other activity besides sleeping. Kids admit bullying each other online beginning as early as 8 years of age” (“Why Is Cyberbullying…”).

While everyone appreciates media for its’ quickness and relevance, many overlook the drastic effect its’ accessibility is causing for the future generations of America. This is sadly compounded by the fact that statistics show there is a trend emerging in this country that causes children to be addicted to these technologies that bear many outlets of media.

Following this, the lens must be shifted to the question, what does cyberbullying cause? Unfortunately, the answer to this is very heart wrenching. To begin with the lower level effects, cyberbullying causes overwhelming depression that cannot physically be refuted anymore. When this topic was first introduced, opposers argued that this depression stemmed from the child’s mental situation him or herself, not because of what they were seeing on media outlets. However, this theory faded over time, whereas myriad studies revealed that the abuse these children receive over their technological devices causes them to look at themselves differently, doubt themselves, and ultimately fall into a very depressed state of mind: “The same research found that 265 female college students showed that those who were involved with cyberbullying in any way were almost three times more likely to be clinically depressed than those who were not involved in cyberbullying. Both bullies and their victims are more likely to suffer from depression than youth who are not involved in bullying” (“Why Is Cyberbullying…”). What many neglect to realize is that this depression is not only something that plagues the youngest generations, but it also drastically affects the portion of the population that is in the most stressful parts of their lives. In other words, college students and young adults searching for their first few jobs in the workforce are plagued by cyberbullying and depression, whereas they are at such pivotal and judged phases in their lives. Receiving this cyberbullying calls for mental instability, which can ultimately ruin a child or adult’s life.

In providing conclusive evidence for this argument against cyberbullying, which has revealed itself as media’s largest problem, one looks towards the lives of our younger generation. As cyberbullying grows in relevance, the suicide rate grows linearly. While many can overlook depression, the underlying fact is that people cannot overlook the suicide it brings about. According to recent research, those who experience cyberbullying are between two and nine times more likely to take their own life, depending on the level of bullying they are receiving via technology. (“11 Facts About Cyberbullying…”) Although this is an ideal that is hard to quantify, one must look no further than the page of Google to see the myriad amounts of news reports and cases that show up pertaining to children taking their life over cyberbullying. Technology itself is not eh issue, not is the presence of media, but it must be understood that media enables the younger generation to bring people to their demise through cyberbullying consequently making it an issue of media itself. In other words, no one can necessarily blame media outlets for cyberbullying, yet it must be an accepted responsibility of these sources to aim to eradicate this impending, increasing disaster.

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Cyberbullying in Schools: Information for School Psychologists

Contents

General Definition & Prevalence in Schools
Comparison of traditional bullying and cyberbullying
Laws in Schools
A School Psychologists role in Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention
Characteristics of Victims

Cyberbullying has become prevalent in schools in recent history, particularly in the last decade, due to the rise in technology and social media. More children have their own cell phones than ever before, and they are getting their first cell phones at younger ages. Bullying has always been an issue in schools. With the emergence of cyberbullying, the bullying now often continues after the children leave school. It is hard for children to avoid the torment of their bully, since the bully can reach them anywhere from online. Due to this, it is important for school psychologists, and other school personnel, to understand the differences between traditional bullying and cyberbullying, and understand why some students bully while other students are targets. It is also important for school psychologists to understand the laws and best practices about bullying and cyberbullying, and to have knowledge of the best intervention strategies that they can apply at their schools.

This paper is meant to give a broad overview of cyberbullying, and to help understand what a school psychologists role is regarding this issue in schools. This paper will discuss the following topics in the order listed here: general definition and prevalence; comparison of traditional bullying and cyberbullying; laws in schools; middle school students; high school students; college students; gender differences; characteristics of the cyberbully; characteristics of victims; children’s perspectives of cyberbullying; peer attachment and beliefs about aggression; high school teachers and support professionals perceptions and perspectives; a school psychologists role in assessment, prevention, and intervention; Intervention strategies; and educating students about dealing with cyberbullies.

General Definition & Prevalence in Schools

A general definition of bullying is, “A form of unprovoked, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance and is either repeated or has the potential to be repeated over time” (Lawner & Trezian, 2013). An extension of bullying is cyberbullying, which is a form of bullying where victims are harassed via the internet or mobile phones (Doherty & Lang, 2015). Due to how fast technology is changing, a study conducted a couple of years ago could already be inapplicable to some situations and schools.

In 2008, the most common methods of cyberbullying was via phone calls and text messages (Smith et al., 2008). In 2010, the most common methods of cyberbullying were computer instant messages and online discussion groups (Content Server 40, NEED TO CITE, 2010). A study in 2016 cited methods used as emails, text messages, and messenger apps including WhatsApp and Messenger.

There are many forms of cyberbullying, such as the following: flaming, cyber-stalking, denigration, impersonation, outing, exclusion and harassment. The most common forms of cyberbullying seen in schools include provocative messages with threats, and harassment. (Çak?r, Gezgin & Ayas, 2016)

Studies have found varying percentages of students who are cyberbullied, and those who cyberbully. The numbers range from 6% to 37% of students being victims of cyberbullying, and 2% to 36% of students being cyber bullies at some point. (Çak?r, Gezgin & Ayas, 2016) The most reported numbers show the actual percentage of students who cyberbully or are cyberbullied are around 15% to 20%. Another study reported that 29% of students were bullied in schools, but only 1% were purely cyberbullied. Most children who are cyberbullied are also bullied by other means in person. (Wolke, Lee & Guy, 2017) Another study reports that as many as 30% of students either bully or are bullied. (Diamanduros, Downs & Jenkins, 2008) The number of students involved with either bullying or being victims of bullying are high enough to warrant school interventions.

Some populations are more prone to bullying and cyberbullying than others. These populations include: students who identify as LGBTQ+, students who are overweight, students with disabilities, racial minorities, and ethnic minorities. (Bradshaw, Waasdorp, O'Brennan & Gulemetova, 2013).

Comparison of traditional bullying and cyberbullying

There is a phenomenon called the Online Disinhibition Effect (ODE), which is a psychological effect in which humans in cyberspace do not have their usual inhibitions and boundaries. This phenomenon is one reason why cyber bullying continues to be a big issue. Cyberbullying is often more intense and has more severe outcomes than face to face bullying, due to the disinhibitions online. (Lapidot-Lefler & Dolev-Cohen, 2015)

Although face to face bullying seems to be more prevalent in schools, students who are cyberbullied are often bullied face to face, or physically, as well. Despite being less common according to statistics, cyberbullying is more relevant than face to face bullying because of the ODE, which results in more severe bullying. Cyberbullies do many cruel things, including posting offensive, humiliating, or even nude pictures and videos to social media accounts. They may post them to the victims account, or make a fake account and post it there. (Çak?r, Gezgin & Ayas, 2016)

Laws in Schools

As of 2011 there are 36 states that have provisions in their education codes that prohibit cyberbullying specifically. In addition, 13 states have jurisdiction over off-campus matters if it creates a hostile environment. Due to cyberbullying being a relatively new issue, and because it often occurs off campus, it is challenging for schools to enforces policies with the limited amount of legal authority they have. The U.S. Department of Education has 11 key components in state bullying legislation, and one of them addresses cyberbullying. It states that school districts must provide a very clear definition of cyberbullying, and it must be easy to understand and interpret by all. (Stuart-Cassel, & Springer, 2011)

Also as of 2011, 25 states define cyberbullying and prohibit it, 11 states prohibit it but don’t define it, and 10 states do not mention it at all. Some states have specific laws in place to try and prevent cyberbullying from occurring in the first place. One example is,“New Hampshire state laws requires each school district to provide educational programs for students and their families on ‘preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying.’” (Stuart-Cassel, & Springer, 2011) In some severe situations of bullying, parents or the victim may want to take action against who they feel responsible. In 18 states, bully legislation assures that state bullying laws don’t limit their rights to make legal claims against individuals or schools. Although courts seem to side with school districts more than it does with the victims. (Stuart-Cassel, & Springer, 2011)

A School Psychologists role in Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention

Although School Psychologists already have many roles, there are a lot of approaches they can take to combating cyberbullying in their schools. They can be effective leaders in regards to promoting awareness of the issue, and explaining the psychological impact it has on students. They can, and should, also assess for prevalence and severity of cyberbullying in their schools. They should help develop prevention programs to address cyberbullying in their schools, as well as create intervention strategies for when cyberbullying inevitably occurs. School psychologists should also be a team member with other school personnel, and help develop policies for their school districts on this ever evolving issue.

Middle School students

High school students

College students

Gender differences

Many studies have tried to analyze the gender difference in and cyberbullying victims and perpetrators, and many different results have been found. A meta-analysis by called, Is There a Gender Difference in Cyber-Victimization?: A Meta-Analysis, by Sun & Fan in 2016 tries to discern the actual answer from these studies. Over 40 research articles were analyzed for their results, and the overall conclusion was females are overall slightly more likely to be cyber victims, while males are more likely to be the perpetrator of bullying overall.

After the authors analyzed the 40 studies from different countries, they found that culture is a compounding factor. The effect size of gender was very different between asian respondents, and Northern America/ European respondents. Males in Asia were actually more likely to be cyberbullying victims than Asian females were. While on the other hand, females in North America and Europe were more like to be cyber victims than their male counterparts. (Sun & Fan, 2016)

Characteristics of the cyberbully (emotional and behavioral problems?) (psychological typology?)

A meta-analysis of 77 studies evaluated the predictors of cyberbullying. It was found that a typical cyberbully would fit the following profile: be an older male; have been involved with offline bullying previously; have behavioral problems; believe that their aggressive behavior is okay; be online often; be victimized offline; report many internalizing symptoms; possibly have or show symptoms of an antisocial or narcissistic personality; lack moral values and empathy; have parents with many conflicts; have parents that do not supervise them much; have a negative climate in school; lack positive peer relationships. (Guo, 2016)

Characteristics of Victims

The meta-analysis of 77 studies mentioned in the previous section also found that the typical victim of cyberbullying would fit the this following profile: be a female; have experienced bullying offline previously; have high levels of stress and depression; feel lonely and hopeless; be on the internet often; possible bully other people face to face; have behavior problems; be antisocial; have low self-esteem; have a positive belief or attitude about aggression; live in a negative family environment; be less committed to school; be rejected and isolated severely from their peers. (Guo, 2016)

Children’s perspectives of cyberbullying

Peer Attachment and beliefs about aggression

High school teachers/ teachers/ support professionals perceptions & perspectives

Intervention strategies

Studies show that the most important and appropriate way to deal with cyberbullying is through education and publicity (Lapidot-Lefler & Dolev-Cohen, 2015). It is also important for educators to know and understand that cyberspace and physical space cannot be severed; bullying online can lead to physical violence and vice versa. (Lapidot-Lefler & Dolev-Cohen, 2015)

Another approach to combating bullying and cyberbullying in schools is to educate teachers about the dynamics of bullying, providing in-depth information about signs of bullying, and educate on the signs that specifically pertain to cyberbullying. Schools can also involve their students in coming up with a solution, as some schools have created bullying committees for students to be a part of, which can help identify bullying issues that school staff were unaware of. (Smith, 2015)

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Bullying and Cyberbullying

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Methods:
Procedure:
Conclusion:

Bullying occurs on a regular basis in today’s society. A bully is defined as, “a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people (Slonje, R., & Smith, P. (2008)).” Bullying is a form of aggression of intentional behavior that is carried out by individuals, or sometimes groups of people towards an individual who is seen as weaker in comparison to the bully. Bullying is a systematic abuse of power. It does not matter what age a person is, bullying does not discriminate against anyone. Some types of bullying are obvious to spot while others can be harder to see. It is easy to see physical bullying because it can include hitting or kicking another person. Opposed to cyber bullying where it is far more difficult to spot, because it is done by using technology such as smart phones or on computers. Smart phone usage has increased and will continue to, causing cyberbullying to become more prevalent if it is not addressed.

Although it might be hard to believe, cyberbullying can be just as harmful to someone as physical bullying. It has the potential of hurting one’s self-image, and in extreme cases it can lead to suicide. (Wang, J., Iannotti, R. J., & Nansel, T. R. (2009)). Cyberbullying is mainly done on social media. Facebook prevails as the most frequently used social media platform on a weekly basis, but Instagram and Snapchat are slowly increasing in popularity (Cyberbullying Research Center. (2017, September 15)).

Cyber bullying has become more present in today’s society. Because of the fast-growing technology industry, it has become harder to monitor and prevent. A survey of 84 students was conducted from two high schools in the United States. The students were between the ages of thirteen to eighteen years old. Over the last school year; 49% of the 84 students reported being electronically bullied victims. In addition, 21% reported being electronic bullies (Slonje, R., & Smith, P. (2008).

Cyberbullying can happen in multiple ways. There are many different types of cyberbullying behaviors such as, “flaming, harassment, outing and trickery, exclusion, impersonation, cyberstalking, and sexting (Giumetti, G. W., & Kowalski, R. M. (n.d.)).” Because there are many different types of behaviors, this leads to multiple risk factors that are caused by bullying. For example, bullying can increase the risk for suicide. Cyberbullying is considered relentless, which increases the likelihood of anxiety and depression. Some states have chosen to prosecute citizens who bully for criminal harassment, which includes encouraging someone to kill themselves or commit suicide (StopBullying.gov. (n.d.). By being more aware of the rising issue, it can be easier to prevent future cyberbullying.

Methods:

For the purpose of this study, I will use a mixed methods approach. By combining both quantitative and qualitative methods it will allow the data to be strengthened by using both approaches. For example, the quantitative results will provide an over-all attitude of participants towards their knowledge of cyber bullying, while the qualitative results will allow the participants to provide their personal input on how cyberbullying as effected them or someone they know.

Procedure:

A survey of ten questions that should take no more than 30 minutes to complete will be made available to the willing participants. Each survey question will be designed on a scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” at 1, to “Strongly Agree” at 5. Then there will be qualitative questions followed with a box below each question for participants to write their answers. The age demographic will be left open-ended so that participants could enter their age, rather than select from a category grouping. For example, instead of selected a category grouping of 18-25 years, the participant will simply enter their age in numbers.

The questions on the quantitative study will be (1) Do you feel cyberbullying is an issue in your school/life? (2) Have you ever felt cyberbullied? (3) Have you ever cyberbullied anyone? (4) If you see someone being cyberbullied do you feel the need to stop it? (5) Do you feel social media applications (Facebook, Snapchat, ETC.) are harmful to people’s self-esteem? (6) Do you feel well informed about what to do if you see someone being cyberbullied online? (7) Have you ever been peer pressured into anything by someone? (8) Do you know who you could report to if you see someone being cyberbullied? (9) Do you feel comfortable reporting to at least one person about cyberbullying? (10) If you see someone being cyberbullied would do you feel the need to report it?

On the qualitative portion of the study I will ask (1) What would you define cyberbullying as? (2) If you have seen cyberbullying what did you do/not do in the situation? (3) If you didn't report it, and were cyberbullied, why didn't you report it? (4) How often do you think cyberbullying happens? (5) What would you do if you noticed someone being bullied in school or online?

Conclusion:

From the results from the different methods, we would be able to see how much cyberbullying is present in the students’ lives. Because of the fast-growing technology in our society, cyberbullying is considered a “newer” type of bullying. Because it is new, there is not as much research done on the topic. By having more research done, officials might be able to prevent the event from escalating and raise awareness of this in schools.

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Cyberbullying in Modern Society

Cyberbullying is becoming a big dilemma in today’s society . I believe that if people are not held accountable for their actions, they will keep on bullying others. People will only stop when someone is held accountable for a person committing suicide or being murdered. In this generation a lot of people are just getting a slap on the wrist and not being punished. If a person is sentenced for his/her actions they could put an end to Cyberbullying. Once they have put an example of punishment no one will want to risk losing everything over a few harsh words behind a screen.

Today cyberbullying has become a huge epidemic. There has been an escalate in victims committing suicide to escape their tormentors. A person who is being bullied may start to have an increase in absenteeism, a decrease on grades, or suffer from depression. A parent whose child committed suicide said, “the bully murdered my son using the keyboard as his weapon, just as surely if he had crawled through a broken window and choked the life from him with his bare hands.” Some schools are starting zero-tolerance policy mandating school administrators to impose a specific punishment, generally suspension or expulsion, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the offense.

The internet has unleashed its dark side that adolescent use to spite and vengeance of others. It is the bathroom wall moved into everybody’s bedroom. This practice even has a name: Cyber-Bullying. A shove in the playground might be a little more refreshing in this new world. Instead hitting the “send” button to broadcast malice worldwide teens prefer to post anonymous insults and harassing messages. The online audience keeps growing rapidly with teens being the main audience, which AOL launched a teen version called RED in February. Experts have said the way to attack online bullying is by attacking bullying in general.

The internet is another way how a person can be cruel to another person using cell phones or other technologies. The main targets of cyberbullying appears to be those who are not at the so call standards of others as being acceptable or cool. The school system has blocked websites that are not school appropriate to help stop cyberbullying, but children are still finding a way to bully others at home through their cell phones or computers. In the bullying role there are three distinct roles the bully, the target, and the bystander. At times young adults do not like to tattle so they just sit back and let the person be bullied. From the research I have done I have seen that many children have not had to deal with any consequences for mentally hurting another person. There have been many fatalities amongst young adults in this world recently. I would like for the adults around these children to help them and not let others tear them down. They should be able to monitor them more when they are able to.

References:

Brunecz, Sydney L. “More Harm Than Good? Why Schools Who Take A Zero-Tolerance Stance on Cyberbullying Cause More Problems Than Solutions.” Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet. Vol 6 Issue 1. p 13-42. SIRS Issues Researcher, https://kidd.blinn.edu:2093/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=28115791-972b-4685-889d-7817b217941b%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=119542918&db=a9h

Cooper, Candy J. “Cyber-bullies Staking the online Playground.” The Record (Hackensack, NJ), 2004, SIRS Issues Researcher, https://kidd.blinn.edu:2066/webapp/article?artno=0000185128&type=ART#cite

Willard, Nancy. “Cyberbullying.” Prevention Researcher, Vol 14, 2007, pp. 13-15, SIRS Issue Researcher, https://kidd.blinn.edu:2066/webapp/article?artno=0000272108&type=ART 13-15, SIRS Issue (indent)Researcher, https://sks.sirs.com

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Adolescent Bullying and School Shootings

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Abstract
Introduction
Methods

Abstract

School shootings are not only direct violence, but also a form of symbolic violence; their intention is to send a message to a broad audience. Victims from bullying suffered from what we call chronic stress and a feeling of absolute helplessness and depression. Without intervention they developed a sense that no one is going to help them manage this, and when you are in that position you have few options like redraw completely, commit suicide or try to kill somebody whose been bothering them. The chronic stress became so high and so internalized they possibly absolutely see no way out. Most mass shooters are male teens that are emotionally unstable and want to exact revenge on society for some harm that they have suffered (real or imaginary).

Introduction

Adolescents who committed school shootings mostly are severely bullied in school and felt very alienated and very angry and they had hit list of the kids who had bullied them. I personally do not think it is an excuse for victim of bullying to commit such act of violence but it makes me wonder more about the motives of these shooters. People who engage in these attacks took serious of actions as in selecting a particular weapon or practicing with weapon. They thought that they are desperate and they accept the idea that violence might be an accept-full way to solve their problem. Nursing in school need to be part of the team to recognize the bullied teen and intervene before there are serious life-threatening consequences.

The perpetrators in these school violence incidents targeted other students who have called them names or rejected them; or they have retaliated for the perceived injustices related to discipline or academic assessments done to them. ‘‘bullying’’ is one of the most significant concerns among children today, and ultimately a predictor in school shootings.

By my count, they have been 166 shootings in schools in the last three decades these cases are persistently viewed as Aberrations Each new incident provokes Surprise and shock. These mass shootings took place in predominately white, middle-class or upper class Suburbans what small towns.

Expects tend to Fix blame on factors external to school, Severe mental illness, access to guns, or media violence, especially video games. While these issues shortly play a role in high incidence of such events, we need to ask you more fundamental question. What occurs in school themselves, the sites, after all of the shootings that causes so many students to become unhappy, anxious, depressed, motivated by rage?

Methods

Some of the shooters Who survived Who didn’t kill themselves or get killed in the Mayhem express these feelings explicitly. They are proud of themselves after the shootings. Most schools shootings perpetrators are male Most of those who committed the massacres, struggle for Rick no nation and status among their peers. The majority of them languished at the bottom of the social hierarchy. They tended not to be athletic, they we also described in the media are skinny, scrawny, Short, lanky. They were diseased for looking feminine or gay. They didn’t need to be academically oriented. Do you where do you only on successful with girls. Many of them were also significantly less wealthy then the popular teens and their schools. As a result of these perceived failures, They were mercilessly teased and abused.

Leaving as they do within such a strict punitive social hierarchy, Boys are told in one way or another to prove their manhood And in some cases, to prove that they exist at all. Mini boys think that the most go to great lengths to differentiate themselves from perceived perceived as gay , Feminine, poor, intellectual, or weak. So they harass, bully, demean, Humiliate, and I generally try to crush this social value of anyone who doesn’t feet him. All in and effort to secure their own social standing by calling in another student gay. A boy demonstrates to others that he is successfully heterosexual, While a boy who beats up another student proves how powerful he is Compared with the injured party.

These boys repeatedly choose to prove their masculinity overwhelming violence. Many of them targeted more popular kids who have harassed them In the girls who had rejected them. They believe their violent response, a powerful demonstration of masculine prowess, Would win them the recognition they desperately craved. Whether they were dead or alive, free or behind bars, one after another, the perpetrators spoke about their yearning for notoriety. They could no longer imagine Achieving recognition is there present reality, so they dreamed of receiving it in some form of afterlife obtained through silence and infamy. These youth turned suit any means necessary to get that recognition.

Bullying is Detrimental to the mind of the individual being bullied it creates that fear in the minds which paralyzes them.

Fear is the most settled and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams, fear kills hope, fear put people in the hospital. Fear can hold you back from doing something that you know within your yourself that you capable of doing but it will paralyze you and it’s seems like you are put in an hypnotic spell.

Fear is false evidence appearing real. That is an illusion we create in our minds, it is a state of mind that can be changed. It makes you thinking this is all we can do, this is all we deserve.

Let’s look at how we can begin to take some steps to restructure that fear to begin to expand our vision of ourselves to begin To increase our self-esteem.

Self esteem is confidence and satisfaction from in one self. Look at your life right now, what have you done up to this point in time in your life? What ever you have produced is game out of you as the result of the kind of person you have become,Is the result of your choices, is a result of your consciousness. Now you have to ask yourself are you satisfied with what you have produced? Is this what you want? Would you like things to be better than this.

Do you believe that you deserve better than this? Are you content this is it and you don’t have to do anything else, That you already resign yourself in. Are you allowing yourself to get off the hook like that? Or do you Believe somewhere in the back of your mind, or in your heart that there other great work for you to do, That there is something else that life has for you and that’s why you here. How do we handle this fear factor cause by bullying? How do we increased our self-esteem? We had to begin to fortify your self. How do we do that? I believe that we have to begin to consciously Monitor inner conversation and talking to yourself , Start building yourself up. Sometimes the only good things you will here about you is the things you say to you. I’m saying Learn to be your own booster, start encouraging yourself, Start saying I can do this. Stop beating yourself up It’s a natural inclination to put ourselves down, We are born negative I think. And a negative consciousness, because we live a negative word, around negative people and bullying factors which makes us think we don’t deserve a better life or it can’t happen for you.

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Bullying: are Schools doing Enough?

That wasn't very nice of me was it? Well, that's what a lot of kids in school today are hearing. That plus a lot worse. Not only are bullies verbally abusive, they have now turned to physical abusing their prey. Bullying in schools has almost become a disease, and numerous children, as young as 7 years-old, have ended their own lives with suicide because of them. Are the schools, the ones we trust our kids with 8 or 9 hours a day, really taking the stand to protect them from Bullies?

Could you imagine being a 13-year-old girl, being spit on, and then having someone tell you, ""You're a piece of shit, and no one likes you. That's why your real dad left."" Then you go to your teacher and principle seeking help, and they act like you are lying, seeking attention, or making a big deal out of nothing. Yeah, that's what one mother, ""Who is also the G.E.D teacher in our town,"" told me her daughter has went through. (Anonymous)

What if you were a 12-year-old boy, hanging out with your friends, acting goofy and being a little loud, but otherwise, not causing any problems, but your, 22-year-old, just out of College, teacher yells at you because you hear her tell you to stop talking. When you go to apologize, she kicks you so hard in the sheen, that the impression of her shoe is left on your leg.

You cry in front of your friends, who laugh, and the principle doesn't do anything except for calling your mom into the school, and tell her that you have 1 week of detention for the incident. Your mom asks everyone in your class to tell her exactly what happened, and they tell you the same thing you did. They refuse to turn this teacher in, because they are afraid, she will be mean to them next. Scary as it may be; Bullying is not just Kid to Kid in schools, It's also Teacher/Authoritative Figures to Kid.

Every school in our country says that they have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy against bullying, but do they really? Are they really doing everything they can to save our children? Are they hiring the right people to care for our children?

As a mother of a 2-year-old, I dread the day I have to send him off to this big ole' world alone. Leaving him at school alone to endure whatever is to come. If I teach him to stand his ground and not back down to someone bullying him, He will get the bad name, the troublemaker. But, if I tell him to just suck it up, ""That sticks and stones break the bones, but words can never hurt you,"" I lie. Words cut the deepest and live a scar only you can see. The Bullies won't stop, and who knows what could happen.

When I spoke with several of our local teachers this week, I got the same, rehearsed and animated answers. ""If we see bullying happen, or are told, we let the other teachers know. We then separate those kids from each other in every class."" Or ""Oh, we don't have any problems in our school with bullies, the kids would let us know."" On the contrary, 57% of students being bullied don't tell anyone. (Cidade, and Lessne) The number is so high, because kids fear retaliation, simple as that.

""Well, we can't do anything if id we don't get told, we're not mind readers."" WELL..... That statement can be challenged.

Schools all over the county have implemented a new policy that all teachers and staff must take a, ""Bullying prevention training"" class. The state of Illinois has gone a step further, and are now holding weekly social-emotional curriculum, which teaches respect and kindness. (Wells)

Also, if schools would start encouraging a feeling of network in their classroom they can bring down bullying occurrences and encourage mending for victims. Research demonstrates that when victims feel associated with friends, they're more adapt to dealing with harassment. Teachers likewise say, that training students to speak up when they witness harassing conduct, and to stand firm against it, can decrease future bullying circumstances by in excess of 50 percent. (Lesley)

Another option for in the classroom, is by making a protected place for students to convey what their needs are and just to feel heard. Outside of the classroom, Teachers should encourage students by helping them get associated with after school programs that line up with their pastimes and interests. To stop bullying completely requires consistent upkeep in schools. But, those strategies for taking care of bullying are obsolete and don't keep exploited people from cyber bullying. As suspension or different disciplines may briefly quit bullying in schools, it does nothing in halting the badgering on the web. The availability to the internet makes it a simple method to discharge hostility to another victim. So, having something to do after school other than be on the internet all evening would help a lot.

When I spoke with Jimmy and Amanda Carter about their daughter Reagan, it was hard not to cry. Reagan was just your normal everyday 12-year-old girl, growing up in today's society. Gone were the days of cartoons and Barbies, they had been replaced with Social media, YouTube followers, and makeup. Gossiping and Boys are all the rage now. But Reagan wasn’t ready to grow up that fast. She still wanted to crawl on the couch with mom and dad and watch Disney movies and eat popcorn. (J. Carter)

The last few weeks of Reagan’s life had been hell for her. Girls who she once considered friends started to turn on her and start problems. All because a boy like Reagan more than them. These girls made fun of Reagan in front of anyone and didn’t care. They knew their school wouldn’t do anything to them. They called her names like, THOT, titless, ugly, narc (Jimmy is a Cop), whore, skank, any name you could think of to run her in the ground. They tormented her all day, and night. Sending her nasty text messages, and creating fake profiles of her on Facebook, Instagram, and twitter. They would photoshop images of Reagen in racy situations and post them all over the internet.

Then they started making up lies on Reagan. We were getting phones calls saying Reagan was pregnant, that she had been sleeping with a high school boy, and one time was told it was a teacher. We knew these were lie’s, just kids being mean. So, we contacted the School principle and they told us they’d look into it. (A. Carter)

The night that Reagan ended her life, Jimmy and Reagan’s biological mother Melina, had decided that after Christmas break, she would be moving in permanently with Jimmy and Amanda and would be changing schools. But they never got the chance to tell her. Reagan went to a basketball game with a friend and her dad, this would be the final push that Reagan needed to just give up and end it. Girls started throwing food at her, spitting on her, even pushing her down the bleachers. The friend's dad tried to intervene, but one of the girls who were involved in the harassment told him that, “Her dad was his boss and she would have him fired.”

WHAT 12-YEAR-OLD DOES THAT???

Reagan got home, kissed her baby sister, and went to the bathroom. She found a bottle of cold medicine pills and took every one of them. She stayed in there for about 30 minutes, then yelled for her mom Melina.

“Mom I’ve taken a bunch of medicine, and I think I'm going to be sick. I'm tired of everyone hating me, I’m tired of not having any friends, I hate my life, I’m done.” Those were the last words Reagan ever spoke. (J. Cater) She slipped into coma on 12-15-2015 and passed away 3 years ago today, 12-23-15.

Schools in this part of the country just aren’t taking Bullying seriously. We live in such small towns that since everyone knows everyone, the school districts think that things will just work itself out. Teachers are not much older than the students themselves, and if they were the bullies in their class, then will they actually take bullying seriously. Will they stand up for the child who is being picked on?

Our local school district has their own Anti-Bullying policy posted online and states the following:

Harassment and bullying may include, but are not limited to, the following behaviors and circumstances:

Verbal, nonverbal, physical or written abuse, hazing, or other victimization that has the purpose or effect of causing injury, discomfort, fear, or suffering to the victim, or exclusion from a group.
Repeated remarks of a demeaning nature that have the purpose or effect of causing injury, discomfort, fear, or suffering to the victim, or exclusion from a group.
Implied or explicit threats concerning one's grades, achievements, property, that have the purpose or effect of causing injury, discomfort, fear, or suffering to the victim, or exclusion from a group.
Demeaning jokes, stories, or activities directed at the student, employee or volunteer that have the purpose or effect of causing injury, discomfort, fear, or suffering to the victim; and/or exclusion from a group.
Unreasonable interference with a student's performance or creation of an intimidating, offensive, or hostile learning environment that has the purpose or effect of causing injury, discomfort, fear, or suffering to the victim; and/or exclusion from a group. (Monroe County)

While doing research this seems to be the norm with policies, and it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Bullies will put such fear into their victims that they will not come forward. They will keep everything to themselves and handle it alone. Even with the chance of their bullies getting into serious trouble with the law, kids don’t want to be considered narcs, or tattletales.

In the case with Reagan, all of this came too late. Only now is the school taking the case serious, calling in detectives to look into what was actually going on. The bullies have still been unidentified, but hopefully somewhere in their souls they have remorse, and feel bad for what they have done. None of this would have happened had Jimmy not pulled every string he had. Even turning in his badge, and becoming and state park ranger, to have a little extra pull.

It’s a sad day when schools won't help just because they fear the repercussions that may fall on them. These are our children, the future of our country. Do we want them to grow up being mean and rude to everyone. How will they be when they are adults? When they are bosses, government officials, teachers, and even parents themselves?

Schools really need to start showing kids the ugly side of bullying. How it effects the victim mentally and physically. That’s one thing they could do to stop this from occurring. Show videos of how these kids were before the bullys started in on them and then show the after effects be that, pictures of wounds from cutting, hospital room pictures were a child has attempted suicide, to a picture of a casket with a mother draped over it screaming.

Teaching kindness and empathy at a young age and continuing it thought out the years in schools would help also. “Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and teachers need to embed this skill into their curriculum,” (Lesley University) Having feelings and knowing that others have them too is key. Teaching kids that having their feelings hurt is not fun and showing them when you treat others bad it hurts them just the same. Schools need to also start taking part responsibility to foster these habits. If a parent reports incidents multiple times and the school does nothing, when the child becomes physically hurt by their own hand, or someone else, then the school will be prosecuted.

Bullying is a significant issue that is affecting a lot of kids in the school and has been continuing to grow worse for quite a while now. There is the need to develop a strategy that will help eradicate it completely. Particularly the new type of bullying that has come about from cyber harassment. Anti-Bullying laws can help stop this sort of bullying as well as many other types of harassment. Cyberbullying is difficult to become aware of, yet its outcomes can be exceptionally harming, as seen by the Phoebe Prince case. The presence of such laws like the one in Massachusetts can help hinder bullies from being a menace because of the unforgiving punishments that are taken against them once they are prosecuted.

In conclusion: If you're lucky enough to not have the leading role of a bully's entertainment, that doesn't mean you can't do anything to stop one. In the event that you see somebody being harassed, speak out against the bully. This will enable the victim to feel safe. Bullying is awful for everybody, regardless of whether it occurs at school or on the web. Sometimes standing up for another person is less demanding than standing up for yourself. It takes a will to face to your bully. However, you may be surprised that others have your back if you decide to take the chance and stand up for yourself and #STOMPOUTBULLYING.

Works Cited

“6 Ways Educators Can Prevent Bullying in Schools.” Lesley University, lesley.edu/article/6-ways-educators-can-prevent-bullying-in-schools.

Anonymous Teacher we will call her, Beth. “My Daughter Was Bullied and I'm a Teacher: What Is Really Being Done.” My Daughter Was Bullied and I'm a Teacher: What Is Really Being Done., 29 Oct. 2018.

Carter, Amanda and Jimmy. “How Bullying Effected Reagan.” 24 Oct. 2018.

“Monroe County Anti-Bullying Policy.” Kids Club • Page - Monroe Public Schools, www.monroe.k12.mi.us/District/Department/16-District/1210-Untitled.html.

United States, Congress, Synergy Enterprises, Inc, Melissa Cidade, and Deborah Lessne Synergy Enterprises, Inc. “Trends in Bullying at School Among Students Ages 12 to 18.” Trends in Bullying at School Among Students Ages 12 to 18. National Center for Education Statistics, permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo84875/2016004.pdf.

Wells, Valerie. “School Districts Take New Approach to Bullies.” Herald-Review.com, Herald and Review, 28 May 2017, herald-review.com/news/local/education/school-districts-take-new-approach-to-bullies/article_195ed77a-d4e9-5ecf-810e-4337009d7a02.html.

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Niceness is Priceless: a Study on Bullying in Schools

Contents

Background of Bullying: A Brief History
Bullying in Schools
Depression and Anxiety
Suicide
School Violence

Teens. Our future presidents, shop owners, celebrities, farmers, the new American society. They have great potential, but at what cost do they succeed? With mental health risks and the possibility of losing friends or loved ones to overwhelming sadness and depression, teens are 15% more likely to suffer from mental health issues than any other age group (Center for Discovery, 2016). Ask any teen and they will confirm it: verbal abuse is a fact of teen life. A majority of stress thrust upon students is due to the anxiety of what happens to them at school. Everyday, more than 160,000 students skip school out of fear of being bullied (Olweus, 2001). I witnessed it this morning; a student making a snarky remark about the clothes that another student is wearing, and while it was not the cruelest thing that he could have said, the other student was obviously hurt but the comment. This one comment could have a permanent effect on him. Students who are affected by bullying may experience mental illnesses and fall behind in their schoolwork, and those who bully others need be punished for their actions accordingly; however, the legal ramifications in place today are not enough to deter a bully from carrying out the dreadful act.

Background of Bullying: A Brief History

Bullying is defined as “a willful, conscious desire to hurt another or put nim/her under stress” (Olweus 2001). According to Olweus (2001) common elements of behavior include “harsh teasing, constant criticisms, insults, gossips, and unreasonable demands.” Victims face injury with repeated attacks that they are unable to defend themselves against. Throughout time, technology has increased, and with this evolution of technology comes an easier and more efficient way to harass others (Olweus, 2001). Almost everybody has a smart phone these days, with this new technology, comes a new power that teens are still growing accustomed to. The well known Spider-man quote got it right; “With great power comes great responsibility.” This technology and power that can be used to stay in touch with family and friends is also being used to communicate cruel messages to other people (Hunter, 2012).

The question then becomes; why would somebody do this? According to Ken Rigby in his book Stop the Bullying: A handbook for schools, bullying is fueled by the desire to hurt others or cause them overwhelming stress. One factor that contribute to bullying immensely is the distribution of power. This means that those who bully have a greater amount of power than the victims. This is including, but not limited to physical excellence, verbal skill, manipulation, social status, and supposed hierarchical authority. This supposed hierarchical authority is the thought that being a senior in high school gives a person authority over someone who is in a lower grade (Rigby, 2014). In the book “Bullying Under Attack”, a series of short true stories written by bullies, victims, and bystanders, Michael Ortiz examines middle schools and how he became feared and respected by his peers. He says;

I like to say that, knowing the mind of a bully, there are actually three kinds: the bully who doesn't know what he’s doing, the bully who knows and cant stop it, and the bully who knows and doesn't want to stop it. I was the third one; I didn't want to stop ridiculing my peers because of the power. It’s intoxicating to have so many people fear and respect you. The more people I bullied, the more grandiose I seemed to become. Granted, I hated myself. I always had issues with my identity, I felt self-conscious about my appearance, and I worried constantly about problems at home. It’s a paradox really. Bullies truly hate themselves. And it’s this hate that makes the power of bullying so alluring, because in a twisted way, instilling fear in others replaces the hate for oneself. (Meyer, Meyer, Sperber, & Alexander, 2013)

Bullying in Schools

Codes of Conduct

In the First Colonial High School code of conduct, bullying and harassment are mentioned 2 times: “The following acts are prohibited; two or more bodies striking against each other for the purpose of causing bodily harm, threatening, posturing to fight, incitement/instigation, physical abuse, gang activity, bullying and cyberbullying.” and “A student will not harass or discriminate against another person based upon that person’s race, color, sex, disability, national origin, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.” Although these things are listed in the student code of conduct, the code is not very specific in defining what the punishment for these things is. It simply states that a student shall not do it. According to Ken Rigby in his book Stop the Bullying: A handbook for schools, an effective code of conduct must include a strong statement on the schools stance on bullying in schools, a succinct definition of bullying, a declaration of the right of students and teachers to not be bullied and to be provided help if bullied, and a general description of intended punishments for those who partake in bullying (Rigby, 2014).

Behavior Outside of School

Bullying is not limited to that of physical and verbal abuse while inside the schools corridors. It can also occur through various forms of cyberbullying, abuse at local restaurants or meeting places, or fights and altercations on school buses or walking home from schools. More stuff from books from TCC.

Punishment. The punishment for behavior outside of schools can often be lenient because schools must provide evidence that the behavior outside the school is affecting a student’s performance in school. This issue is still being battled in courts today and many cases have differing opinions on the solution. While some cases decide that anything that occurs between 2 students in the same school or school district in or outside of schools is grounds for punishment, other cases decisions are quite the opposite, stating that altercations that occur outside of school between 2 students are not the responsibility of the school and therefore unpunishable.

Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools. A case that was very important in deciding the fate of students who bully others outside of school or online was Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools. This case involves Kara Kowalski, who created a MySpace page called S.A.S.H. Kara testified that the acronym stood for Students Against Sluts Herpes, but another student said it meant Students Against Shay’s Herpes. This page was dedicated to sharing many edited pictures of another student named Shay. She was edited with red dots on her face and a sign around her pelvic region that read “Enter at your own risk.” Shay’s parents were very upset by this, and after contacting Kowalski’s parents and confronting them to no avail, they went to the school to get Kowalski punished. The school agreed with the parents and in turn suspended Kowalski for 10 days, with an additional 90 days of social suspension, preventing her from attending after-school activities and school events (Hanks, 2012).

Kowalski then claimed that the school violated her First Amendment right to free speech and her Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment. The court eventually ruled in favor of the schools, citing the schools code of conduct, which specifically laid out the rules and intended punishments for these offenses (Hanks, 2012).

Effect of Bullying

Bullying can have permanent effects on a teens mental health that last throughout high school and for the rest of their lives. Crippling mental disabilities can come into play due to overwhelming fear, anxiety, and overall sadness. Bullying, however, does not only affect the students in the direct altercation. It can lead to school violence and mass shootings due to an overall hatred of the student population and the overwhelming urge to make the other students feel how they feel. It can also affect a victim’s family. If the pain gets too much for a victim to handle, they may result to self-harm and eventually suicide, leading the family into despair that could eventually lead to depression of their own.

Depression and Anxiety

Depression is defined as “a common mental disorder that presents with a depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self esteem, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration.” While some people may experience one or more of these things from time to time; it takes a medical professional to actually diagnose someone with depression. It does not happen quickly either. Depression must be diagnosed over a two week period, in which the patient is observed for signs of depression such as; a depressed mood for most of the day, weight loss or weight gain, changes in appetite, or increased desire to sleep everyday or almost everyday. Another major red flag would be thoughts of suicide or an actual suicide attempt.

Treatment. Most treatments for this illness must be prescribed by a medical professional, which is why it is so important to be diagnosed. Treatments can range anywhere from antidepressant medication and counseling to hospitalization. There are also some alternative routes of treatment, such as; acupuncture, yoga, meditation, and other common stress relieving activities.

Suicide

Suicide is one of the most drastic consequences of bullying in school. One instance of this would be when Gabby Cazares ended her life because of other students at her school. Gabby had a medical condition that made her lose her hair, which resulted in her wearing wigs to school. One day a rumor spread that students were going to pull her wig off. Gabby was scared and went into the bathroom crying, and was followed by a group of girls that were giggling and calling her names. After she texted her mom to come pick her up, she stormed out of the bathroom, into the hall and ripped off her wig. Now hysterically crying, she asked the small crowd that had formed “Is this what you wanted to see?” Later that month something similar happened and she asked her mom to come pick her up. This time she went home and went to bed right away. Later, Gabby’s mom went to go check on her and she was no longer in her room, however the window was open. They went outside to look from her, and found her body hanging from the tree in the backyard. When told the news of Gabby’s death, students and parents were outraged. Parents flocked to the school board meeting, begging that something be done before bullying claimed the lives of their own children. Gabby’s mother claimed that Gabby was also bullied at her old school, but when concerns were brought to the administration the bullying stopped almost immediately, however this was not the case at the current school. When Gabby’s mother went to the administration of this school, nothing was done and it resulted losing her daughter. The police department conducted an investigation, but results came back inconclusive.

School Violence

School violence is not only the act of physical fights in school but also the urgently increasing problem of school shootings. Fighting in schools is one of the most commonly misinterpreted aspects of life in high school. Movies and T.V. shows glorify them, making them seem dramatic and fun to witness; however many in-school fights root from verbal or physical abuse that has been occurring for quite some time. This is widely due to the increasing bullying epidemic and the wave of uniformity that many students feel is necessary for acceptance into teenage society. Mass shootings can also be caused by bullying in schools. The most recent example of this is the school shooting that occured in Santa Fe, Texas. The father of the teen shooter claims that the motivation for his massacre was the excruciating bullying that he endured while he was a student at the school. A woman who wanted to remain anonymous claimed that she saw the shooter at a festival just a few days before dancing and having fun. The community believed that he was a happy and healthy teenager, which leads to suspicion that something must have thrown him over the edge (Cerullo, 2018).

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How should Schools Stop Bullying

From the two reports we know that every student can become a bully or bully of school bullying. The correct understanding of bullying on campus is the basic premise for the school to carry out prevention and treatment work, and it needs to be recognized by all faculty and staff. The root of preventive work is to build a team of trusted friends and teachers, and a group and school that can study and live with peace of mind. There is a need to strengthen the awareness and ability of teachers.

Teachers should train students to develop relevant skills related to ‘basic ability’ and ‘expertise’. First, let the children stay away from the basic abilities of bullying, mainly including understanding and communication ability of others, and judging the ability of others and the environment. Second, the study of the expertise of school bullying. At the same time, the students are given a variety of decompression methods, such as sports, reading, confiding, etc., rather than conflict with others. Bullying damage often stems from ‘learning pressure’ and ‘interpersonal relationship pressure’. School education and teaching practices should be improved in order to prevent bullying. Schools should build a platform for everyone to express, attach importance to the interpersonal relationship building of classes, grades, and associations, create opportunities for everyone to be useful and successful, and improve self-awareness.

The important feature of school bullying is that it is difficult to find and difficult to judge, because bullying usually occurs at times and places that are difficult for adults to discovery, and is often obscured by playfulness and other forms. Teachers first need to have positive attitudes and discoveries and judge with other teachers. For school, the key to discovering bullying as soon as possible is to establish and improve relevant measures, such as regular investigations, consultations, and reports. For example, Japanese schools arrange regular questionnaires to allow students to choose their own situation. Through the survey, the school learned about bullying on campus and also investigated factors such as learning pressure, interpersonal relationship, and self-efficacy.

Once the bullying facts are discovered and determined, teachers need to immediately stop it. If there is student counseling and reporting about bullying, teachers need to prioritize this work rather than other work. For those who are being bullied, the teacher must show the attitude of ’resolute protection’ and ’resolute support’. It is necessary to tell the bullied students :’You are not wrong!’ Parents should also be used to protect students through home visits. After the school has confirmed the facts of bullying, it is necessary to combine psychologists and professionals with relevant experience to discuss solutions to prevent recurrence. For bullies, first of all, let them know that bullying is an act of hurting others, promote self-reflection, and then punished according to different situations.

In addition, the problem of bullying on the Internet is becoming more and more prominent. It is characterized by violent behavior, usually speech violence or exposure to information bullying. Therefore, schools need to guide students to regulate use the Internet. First of all, the school and the family work together to improve the quality of the students. Secondly, once bullying is discovered, it is necessary to stop and clear the information immediately.

The problem of school bullying cannot be eliminated in a short time. Schools should promote students to build correct values and protect their growth.’ The school should be the sunniest and safest place.’ Our goal is to create a campus environment for children without fear.

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Bullying in School is only Getting Worse

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bullying affects twenty percent of high school students. Bullying is a negative action that has continued to occur in education systems all around the world. There are a few reasons as to why the bullying rates seem to be increasing over the years. Nowadays it is normal for children to be given cell phones at such an early age. These teens are so young which is a huge cause for the negative use of social media. Another reason for bullying is teens often compare themselves to fake media and feel insecure, which leads to them bringing others down to make themselves look better. Studies show that twenty-eight percent of American teens ages 11-18 have been bullied. Targets of bullying may be of other race, sexuality, or could also have some kind of disability. Many of us may believe the US education system has the highest rates for bullying, which is false, Austria takes that rate.

Bullying may appear bad in the United States, but statistics show there are many others countries that have it worse. With LGBTQ+ becoming a big organization in today’s world bullying rates have increased. A source found on Google states “Students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual or non-binary are more likely to be targeted by school bullies for being different. Bullying of people of a different sexual orientation or gender identity can be brutal — and can even lead to assault.” (Wasatch Academy Organization.) The Wasatch Academy also suggested that teachers should start to set a good example by including all in order to help prevent events like this in the world’s education systems. According to ScienceDaily.com, “In 1991, the average coming-out age was 25. But as of 2010... it is 16 years old.” Coming out at age 16 can be very hard for many. These teens are just beginning their high school years. For them to have the courage to come out at that age is amazing. Bullies throughout the world in school feel as though these teens are easy targets because they’re “different.”

Austria has the biggest reports of bullying. Cyber abuse in Austria got so bad that police have started to investigate social media and texts on many teens cell phones. It is crazy that something so good such as cell phones can have such a negative effect on our society. This Scholastic article states a few ideas on cyberbullying:

They may not call it cyberbullying. Students may say they got ""dissed"" on Facebook or that someone flooded their phone with mean texts. Even little kids have been known to hack into Club Penguin to sabotage each other's games. While most of these incidents occur at home, the problems spill over to the classroom, making cyberbullying an issue teachers can't ignore. The answer isn't forbidding technology, say experts, so much as teaching kids right from wrong. As a teacher, you can be a powerful force in promoting a climate of respect. Educate yourself and be on the lookout for signs that cyberbullying is taking place, because you may be the trusted adult a student turns to for help. (Scholastic.com)

Another factor is parental supervision. If children are never taught the right thing then it is very unlikely they will DO the right thing. Children need to be supported in order to grow up and make the right decisions. They need to feel love and peace. Many children are often gifted cell phones at such a young age. It would not be a problem if all were taught how to properly use them. And not only that but how to properly treat people. This is becoming a huge problem all around the world in the education system.It is hard to know when it is right to trust children and young teens with cell phones and social media. There are many ways that bullying could be prevented, including supervision, love, and properly using all cellular devices.

Suicide and self-harm has been a very scary effect of bullying. “Though too many adults still see bullying as “just part of being a kid,” it is a serious problem that leads to many negative effects for victims, including suicide. Many people may not realize that there is also a link between being a bully and committing suicide,” (Bullyingstatistics.org). Teen suicide is happening all over the world. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University.

Whether it is about body image, sexuality, or race bullies have found ways to pick on others. There is the bully, the victim, and the bystander. It is important that we tell a trusted adult if we ever witness any type of bullying going on around us. Phones have created a simple platform for bullying to occur. There are many people who choose to bully others anonymously and with certain anonymous apps such as sarahah and ask fm. It is so sad to think that this is happening all around us and we may not be able to even notice it. We need to stop this because bullying has become a huge cause of child/teen suicide. It is so sad to think that someone could be so selfish as to try and make others feel bad about themselves to the point where they don’t feel the need to live. Let this be a great lesson. We can easily try harder to spread kindness and positivity. We can all learn to not be rude to someone just because they were rude to us. Let’s step up and be the bigger person.

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Bullying in Schools

Imagine finding your child hanging lifeless in his/her closet because he/she was being bullied at school. This is not something that is easy for anyone to imagine and it shouldn’t be. For the parents of Gabbie Green, this was their reality. Bullying is no joke and it needs to stop!

My name is Brandy Gonzalez and I am here to get your help with putting an end to bullying in our schools. Rita Brhel, managing editor of theattachedfamily.com, wrote that bullying impacts everyone, whether you’re the victim, the bully or just a witness or bystander.

In March of this year, ABC News reported about a 12-year old middle school student, Gabbie Green, who became a victim of bullying. According to her father, and I quote, “she had all the love in the world when she came home, but the days that she went to school she would be isolated, manipulated and demoralized”. Her parents reached out to the school for help, but it continued. This could be your child. It is important that you watch for signs of your child being bullied. In 2017, according to stopbullying.gov, and I quote “children who are bullied are at risk of having behavioral health issues such as anxiety, depression and social withdrawal”. They also state that kids who are bullied are also at risk for alcohol/drug abuse and suicide. Teachers and parents, we need to be aware of what are children are dealing with so we can do everything we can to intervene.

What about the bully? The 2 students who were charged with cyberstalking Gabbie are minors and there isn’t really a whole lot of information to be found about them. Rita Brhel from theattachedfamily.com, reported studies show that kids who bully others are at risk to get into fights, steal, carry weapons and drop out of school. And when these kids grow up into adulthood, they tend to be abusive towards others. Does this surprise you?

It doesn’t stop there; in 2009 The American Psychological Association said, and I quote, “students who watch as their peers endure the verbal or physical abuse of another student could become psychologically distressed, if not more, by the events.” These are our children, which are our future. The witness or bystander feels a sense of guilt for not helping the victim as well as fear of being the next victim.

So how are you all feeling? It is very clear that we need to end bullying in schools because its impacting all our children, whether they are the bully, the victim or just a witness, possibly for the rest of their lives. We can’t let this continue.

You are probably asking yourself how are we going to stop bullying? Well, first all schools need to take bullying seriously, and have a zero-tolerance policy that is strictly enforced. American Psychological Association suggests the following about how we all can take action to prevent bullying in schools.

Be knowledgeable and observant and intervene to stop it
Involve students and parents in safety teams or antibullying task forces
Teachers and administrators to set positive expectations about behavior for students and adults

We need to start today, because one child effected is one too many.

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How should Schools Address Bullying

In order to establish a more conducive environment for learning, diverse educational institutions, especially K-12 schools, have adopted different strategies and rules to address school bullying. School bullying has adversely affected the lives of millions of individuals all over the United States (US). In a study conducted by John D. Grant, it was explained that around 15% to 20% of American students have been adversely affected by school bullying (Grant 418). It should be noted that Grant’s study was conducted way back in 2001; there have been diverse efforts to quell school bullying since that year, interestingly, the problem still persist, prompting experts in the field of social science and other related fields to conduct studies that try to understand the different factors that make anti bullying initiatives highly effective. Upon a careful consideration of the findings of such scientific studies, this essay argues that, contrary to the common belief that heavier penalties will inevitably lead to the decrease in the occurrence of bullying, the main components that make anti bullying initiatives really work are empathy and consistency.

It is tempting to hastily infer that heavier penalties against bullying will surely address the issue. This perception is based on the idea that fear is a very important factor in quelling crimes or inappropriate behaviors. Interestingly, it has been proven time and again, that inflicting fear on “would be” assailants does not reduce crime rate significantly; this is the case with the concept of preventing heinous crimes by imposing death penalty (Brandt and Kovandzic 1).

Diverse studies have shown that this approach does not work at all. While bullying and heinous crimes are different, the idea that inflicting fear for prevention does not work on the former, as well. In fact, in a study conducted by John C. LeBlanc, it was revealed that children who were raised from families that impose harsh discipline, which intends to impose more fear towards the subject, tend to have higher propensity of become school bullies. The same observations were made on students who were brought up on single parent homes, and homes with low cohesion (LeBlanc 411).

Note that these findings by LeBlanc suggest that bullies are victims of adverse social environments in their respective homes. As victims, they should also receive help. Thus, it is not surprising to learn that, what is shown to work effectively against bullying is helping bullies develop empathy towards their victims rather them coercing them through fear.

In a study conducted by Claire F. Garandeau and her fellow researchers, it was shown that empathy arousal shows better results in preventing future bullying incidents compared to condemning or blaming the perpetrator. One of the most effective ways to arouse the bully’s empathy is make them realize the pains that they have caused to their victims. The study particularly pertained to the fear felt by the bully’s victim as one of the causes that anti-bullying school officials should let the bully know in order to arouse empathy (Garandeau et al. 1036).

Another important finding in previous studies that prove the thesis of this paper is shown in a study conducted by Stephanie L. Ayers and her fellow researchers. The study has investigated the impact of sanctions and rules approach in bullying, buy reviewing the records of more than 1, 200 K-12 students in the US. Results of their study revealed that there is not empirical evidence to prove that this approach significantly reduces bullying incidents or improve school safety. What was proven, however, is that schools that tend to implement their rules consistently tend to have lower bullying rates compared to those that are not consistent, and those that focus more on the “zero-tolerance” policies (Ayers et al. 540).

The idea of advocating empathy and consistency instead of heavier or more serious penalties to inflict fear and prevent the occurrence of school bullying is based on the assumption that all school children – spectators, bullies, and victims, included – need help in ensuring their positive youth development and not on finding faults and punishing them. In other words, the proposed approach assumes that spectators, bullies, and victims are all victims of bullying who need help from school officials (LeBlanc 411). Thus bullying can only be efficiently reduced, if not totally stopped, not through coercion but through persuasion (Hui et al. 2266).

What appears to be commonsensical is not always the best solution for many social issues like school bullying. For example, it is easy to infer that fear deters bad behaviors; however, diverse scientific studies prove that such is rarely the case. Bullying is far more complex than what it seems; it is caused by diverse factors such as bully’s bad experiences at home. Thus it is important to understand and acknowledge that bully’s need help as much as the victims of bullying. Such help can be given by helping the former learn and develop empathy through the heartfelt and consistent implementation of anti bullying rules and laws within the school environment.

Works Cited

Ayers, Stephanie L. et al. “Examining school-based bullying interventions using multilevel discrete time hazard modeling” Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research vol. 13,5 (2012): 539-50.

Brandt, Patrick T. and Tomislav V. Kovandzic. “Messing Up Texas?: A Re-Analysis of the Effects of Executions on Homicides” PloS one vol. 10,9 e0138143. 23 Sep. 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138143

Garandeau, Claire F. et al. “School Bullies' Intention to Change Behavior Following Teacher Interventions: Effects of Empathy Arousal, Condemning of Bullying, and Blaming of the Perpetrator” Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research vol. 17,8 (2016): 1034-1043.

Grant, John D. “Schoolyard bullying: It needs to be addressed” Paediatrics & child health vol. 6,7 (2001): 418-20.

Hui, Eadaoin K. P. et al. “Combating school bullying through developmental guidance for positive youth development and promoting harmonious school culture” TheScientificWorldJournal vol. 11 (2011): 2266-77.

LeBlanc, John C. “Bullying: It's not just a school problem” Paediatrics & child health vol. 6,7 (2001): 411-413.

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Shootings in Schools in the Last Three Decades

Some of the shooters Who survived Who didn’t kill themselves or get killed in the Mayham express these feelings explicitly. They are proud of themselves after the shootings. Most schools shootings perpetrators are male Most of those who committed the massacres, struggle for Rick no nation and status among their peers. The majority of them languished at the bottom of the social hierarchy. They tended not to be athletic, they we also described in the media are skinny, scrawny, Short, lanky. They were diseased for looking feminine or gay. They didn’t need to be academically oriented. Do you where do you only on successful with girls. Many of them were also significantly less wealthy then the popular teens and their schools. As a result of these perceived failures, They were mercilessly teased and abused.

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