Wednesday, September 19, 2012
I feel that most aspects of cyber bullying are going to occur at home which sets a lot of responsibility on the parents. The teachers have to deal with the emotional aftermaths of the students however it is limited to what they can do. The school will have a policy to follow when situations like this occur but the parents and students will most likely be the ones who handle the situation.
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so schools should just wait for a tragedy to happen and then deal with it?
ReplyDeleteinstead of try to prevent it?
ReplyDeleteThey can do something to make the students aware of the situation which definitely needs to be done, but they cannot suspend a student or something similar simply due to a student saying someone made fun of them online
ReplyDeleteI feel it mostly occurs at home to but saying that classroom teachers have an even greater responsibility, since they are dealing more directly with the students in their own classroom who may be affected by cyberbullying. The students in their classroom are still affected and it has to be the teachers responsibility to make sure that they educate the children so that they can prevent it outside of the classroom...
ReplyDeleteAlso it is important to consider that not all cyber bullying takes place between people that are in the same class. How do you punish a student that is bullying another student from a completely different school. There is no way to do that, the only thing that could be done would be to get law enforcement involved and what the student is doing simply isn't illegal, its just mean.
ReplyDeleteI think that most cyber bullying begins at the schools. The school is where a lot of students interact with other kids, and this is where they begin to get targeted for this type of harassment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this statement, that kids get targeted at school first.
DeleteRight, so teachers are forced to be involved because they see how these students act and participate in class. They can sense something is wrong but there is a limit on what the teachers can act on. The parents have a strong responsibility in this and maybe the teacher can contact them if they suspect something is going on.
ReplyDeleteI think teachers have an excellent capacity for stoping cyber bullying before it gets too far. If the teacher is alerted to these type of problems, depending on the severity of the harassment, they can suspend the bully, who is causing the problem, and get that student out of the equation, so that the victim can return to focusing on their studies.
Deleteright, JDC86 they can't suspend someone due to those circumstances and just saying they are being made fun of online. The teacher can handle the situation by trying to prevent the situation from happening, growing, and trying to subtly attack the problem and talking about rules and online etiquette and cyber bullying and harrassment and how it is wrong and not a nice thing to do. If the student comes to them with the issue during school hours, the teacher cannot ignore this problem, it then becomes their responsibility to do something about it even if the school and parents has rules about it being an outside of the classroom issue. Teachers and educators will need to deal with all types of these issues that doesn't mean we can ignore or not try to prevent them from happening.
ReplyDeleteI dont feel teachers are forced.. As a teacher it is your classroom... and if something happens in your classroom or with your students it is your responsibility to react and do somehting about it. whether your telling a higher authority, or whether you need to start incorporting lessons dealing with cyber bullying to prevent it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that something needs to be done for the situation in general like talking to the student and reporting the issue to higher authority and the parents of the child but even though this is done it does not make it the teachers responsibility. Yes they can choose to take action when something like this is going on in your classroom but it is limited how much action a teacher can directly take.
ReplyDeleteJust because a teacher's ability to interfere in the bullying is limited, does not mean they should not take an active role in disrupting this type of bullying. Batman does not have super powers, but he still fights crime.
DeleteThe sad reality of the situation is that this type of confrontation is the new normal. A student needs to be educated on how to deal with it after the fact more than we need to be responsible for its prevention or the punishment of a "guilty" party
DeleteEducating the student on how to handle cyber bullying could easily be taught in some place... I wonder where though?
Delete::hint:: Schools
Kyle, you are cyber bulling me
DeleteIf school shootings like the Columbine shooting became more normal, would that just mean schools and teachers would wait until it happens and never do lock down drills or preventions and just deal with the after math?
Delete@cplotts LOL
Deleteschools would not wait for the problems to occur but if the shooting did not occur they would have no reason to take preventative action, so if teachers are unaware where cyber bullying is occurring...when would be the smart time to take these actions?
Deleteyes they know it occurs but cannot always pin point in, trained or not
DeletePunish him, insisted the parents.
ReplyDelete“I said, ‘This occurred out of school, on a weekend,’ ” recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. “We can’t discipline him.”
That is only one example of that. I think that school was being ignorant in my opinion. If it happened to one of there students whether inside or outside the classroom, as a school isnt the main purpose to provide a safe place for students to go. That student isnt going to feel safe if nothing happens to the person who bullied him. I feel whether inside or outside the classsroom it is the schools responsibility to take action.
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