More and more schools across the country are trying to address the issue of bullying. But bullying’s presence online has grown considerably. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean suggests that schools should promote healthy interactions between students that strikes an appropriate balance between protecting liberties and promoting student safety. Since many schools have included the use of technology into their curriculum it would be irresponsible for the schools to not include a component that emphasizes conduct. Brown-Dean believes that schools should adopt the use of student code of conduct which colleges and universities use to govern students’ on and off campus. Lilian Grae has a totally different view on what schools should do when online bullying happens outside the school walls. She expresses her opinion about the school’s authority stops right after the last bell rings. Grae believes that unless Internet activity is being held during school time or as an extracurricular activity, the school has no authority to be involved with what students do outside of school.
My thoughts on this topic is very simple and clear to the point, yes schools should regulate and involve themselves into the cyber bullying that happens outside of school. What happens outside of the school has a major impact on the behavior of students at school. Schools must learn that if any of their students are involved in any type of digital harassment off campus, the student is still a part of the school community. Therefore it is equally important for schools to address online bullying, as well as on campus bullying. The relevance of this topic is still very sensitive up to this day. I have seen these things happen have continued to see it online. This caught my attention mainly because Mayfair has been in a similar situation not too long ago. An app called Ogle, where its purpose is to interact with students from other schools. Instead it became an app where students began to expose and cyber bully fellow classmates anonymously. Sure enough the school got involved since plenty of students were victimized by this. Should schools involve themselves and regulate cyberbullying outside the classroom? What do you think could be done better to regulate online bullying?
I also agree with you too, but i feel all of the responsibility shouldn't just be put on the school to fix cyber bullying. I personally feel if a child is getting cyber bullied they should go to their parent first, and if he or shes parent can not fix the situation, then a student should involve the school. Otherwise if a parent has fixed the situation by themselves and they see change in the bullying then there is no need to involve the school.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand if a parent tried to fix the situation and they don't succeed then i feel the school should be involved. Like you said outside school actions carry back to inside school actions. Although I feel really strongly that the child should reach out and tell their parent first, because it is easier to resolve an issue when there are less people involved.