Cyber-bullying Lets Get It Under control

Cyberbullying/Bullying

Cyberbullying is becoming more and more a problem.  It starts with bullying, the face to face contact, but the person can find a safe place to go to so they can get away from the person.  Cyberbullying is 24 hours a day 7 days a week and 365 days a year.  They can be anonymous in less they mess up and use their own email address.  They can use a computer, cell phone, by using social media like facebook, text, messages, chat and websites. 

The effects of being cyberbullying and bullying.  The person may use drugs and alcohol, start skipping school to get away from the person, experience being bullied in person, and have a very lower self-esteem.  If it goes too far they person my kill them self, depending on what the person types to you. 

“The 2013-2014 School Crime Supplement (National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics) indicates that 7% of students in grades 6–12 experienced cyberbullying.”

“The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey finds that 15% of high school students (grades 9-12) were electronically bullied in the past year.”

“Research on cyberbullying is growing. However, because kids’ technology use changes rapidly, it is difficult to design surveys that accurately capture trends” (stopbullying.gov)

There is way to prevent it, monitor what your child is doing online, I know they my complain about it but tell them you are looking out for their best interest.   Give them limited time on the computer, know what their passwords are, and encourage them that they can talk to you about anything.  If they are changing their behavior, like not wanting to go to school, there is a problem and talk to them about it.

http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/index.html

I chose to do cyberbullying/bullying because of my two boys.  As I have said before a few times my boys are getting bullied.  But for my oldest it went from bullying to cyberbullying and the student didn’t get into that much trouble for it.  I still have the emails that the student sent him.  The student only got suspended for ten-fifteen days for what he did.  I think it might have been a little longer because it was right before Christmas break.  Which I didn’t think was right, but the student was removed from all the class he had with my son and is not allowed to have any contact with him at all or he will be expelled from the school and but into juvenile detention until he is eighteen. 

This all started in fourth grade with my oldest with this student and continued on.  The fifth grade teacher finally helped me with it and when my son went the sixth grade the student wasn’t there so we thought it was all done and over with.  But half way through sixth grade the student came back and picked up right where he left off.  And then in seventh grade the student went to cyberbullying.  I finally had enough and took it to one of my son teachers and then to the principle and they both helped.  Hopefully it is done for good this time.  

Yes this is something really close to the heart because the student sent my son to the hospital three time throughout this whole ordeal.  

Reading each other essays was changeling for me.  I don’t really know how to do an essay that well, so I didn’t really know how to comment on others.  I took some from my own essay the WRIT commented on and used that.  I did notice that the word you were used a lot.  I did comment on that.  Also that the page number with the last name wasn’t on a couple of them.  I didn’t have it on mine either but I know I did it, but also my mind was somewhere else this past week.  The others had the four pages or so and I didn’t see that there was a page limit.  I went back through and read everything I could think of and I didn’t find anything.  Some also didn’t have a thesis statement.  I thought I had one but I guess it wasn’t good enough.  Reading others somewhat helped me with mine, what to add, what to take out and how to re-word things.  Essay are not the easiest thing to right, mainly when I went to school I didn’t have to do them.  I tried my best to give feedback on others that I thought were wrong.  Most of everyone’s essay is about clean water that I read.  The harm it does to people who have to go out at night for peace, but have to worry about if the women and children would get raped, taken or just get a sickness from the dirty water.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/04/indonesia-expanding-access-to-clean-water-for-the-poor

As of March 4, 2013, the number of additional people with sustainable access to improved water facilities is 4,826,595 and with access to improved sanitation facilities is 5,516,847.  Approximately 49.83 percent of beneficiaries are women.  The scale of the program is being doubled to include an additional 17 provinces and 100 districts. The Bank contributed US$135.5 million through an International Development Association (IDA) credit; 92 percent of this amount has been disbursed. The rest of the funds were provided by development partners, including the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).  This is some of the information you can read on this website. Yes there are more you can read just click and read.