cyberbullyingO

Originally, harrassment in schools was seemed that boys will be boys and girls will be girls. This viewpoint changed when situations and outcomes worsened. The schools became involved and stepped in when harrassment began to take place. There were consequences for anyone who engaged in any top of hazing or bullying. The schools set up policies that directly addressed student to student harrassment and listed appropriate punishments. Now the schools had a legal duty to take care of harrassment issues.

Today,traditional bullying still exists, but now there is a new culprit, the computer and this has become the new way of harrassing peers by students. Cyberbullying is any kind of taunting over the internet that is done to create damage to a person, their character or their computer system. The biggest problem with cyberbullying is the ability for the perpetrator to remain unknown and the ability to send the comments to the masses. This creates chaos at school and even more people getting involved in the bullying and rumors even in the face to face contact.

The schools are having difficulty with this issue because most of it takes place off of school grounds and they only have the authority to stop the "speech" part of it. Schools don't just want to punish the offenders but also stop the problem, make the parents aware of what's going on. Thus schools want to give educational presentations on the dangers of cyberbullying to show kids what it can do to their peers.