craig skinner's List: Bullying

• Current school district policies on harassment and student behavior clearly cover incidents that happen on school campuses or are school-related
• The parents of the students that were identified by the school as being involved were called and told it was inappropriate,
• Beyond notifying parents and helping to remove the postings, the district took no further discipline
• A new law that took effect January 1 gives schools authority to suspend or expel students for bullying fellow students over the internet, in text messaging or by other electronic means

• Other parents called for the perpetrators' expulsion or publication of their names so that college admissions officer would be aware of their involvement. Several bloggers also said Facebook should have taken action in the incident. 

   

   

   

  Others said no school district involvement was needed since the bullying occurred off campus and school officials already "have enough on their plates."
• cyberbullying, disruptive behavior and harassment
• We take this issue very seriously and encourage people to report content that singles out and attacks an individual or group."
• bring anti-bullying programs to the schools and to integrate anti-bullying education into the curriculum
• It's all the same thing—just a different form. Now, when you see the kids so empowered at such a young age with these different tools—when 10 year olds in the grocery store are texting—it's a whole different challenge to model appropriate behavior.

7 more annotations...

• Text messaging is a dominant form of teenage communication, but reports of cyber bullying
• in today’s world, texting is how kids stay connected with their peers.
• For many kids, it’s a major part of their social world, and not having it makes them feel like an outcast.
• the effect of texting on kids as future communicators as well as the bad social habits it seems to encourage.
• she seemed addicted to the vibrating buzz that signaled a new messag
• Clearly she couldn’t focus on the people she was physically with when she was constantly being pulled into a virtual conversation with someone else.
• As it turned out, it was what other people were saying to her that began to concern me more. That’s when I learned about the mean-girl texts, the ones no one would have the nerve to say to a person’s face but are easy to send from one nonconfrontational phone to another.
• The truth is, I like texting with my kids. It makes me feel hip to communicate with them in a way they actually respond to. I liked being able to find out where they were, who they were with and if their plans had changed, and to tell them when they needed to come home, without having to talk on the phone. I would text my son an ‘I love you’ when I knew he was home from school. He’d immediately send me one back, and I knew he was safe. That was important to me because he’s not a big talker.
• I don’t like. I didn’t like that my daughter rarely spoke to her friends in New York anymore, relying only on texting to communicate. And I certainly do not like hearing about kids who send around half-naked pictures of themselves.

7 more annotations...