Cyber Bullying

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Sarah is an average teenage girl. She gets decent grades, likes to hang out with friends and is on the track team. One day when Sarah arrives at school she notices other kids staring at her and whispering, but she doesn’t think too much of it. Later in the day at lunch a few kids mutter nasty words at her as they pass by, kids she doesn’t even know. After school she turns on her cell phone and see 15 text messages from numbers she doesn’t know, all of them calling her horrible names like “skank” and “bitch.” Once she is home Sarah checks her e-mail to find messages like the ones on her phone, but one of them has a link. After clicking on the link Sarah is directed to a web site, and it appears to be all about her. Photo collages with unflattering pictures cover the page, and a bulletin board with hundreds of postings calling her nasty names, each one more malicious and hurtful than the last. After months of this Sarah can’t take it anymore, nowhere is safe, and she decides to end her life by taking pills from her mom’s medicine cabinet.

Ten years ago the solution to being bullied at school was simple. A teenager could transfer to another school, try homeschooling or even join an independent study program. Eliminate contact with the bully, and the problem was solved. Today eliminating that contact is not as simple. With text messaging, email, social networking web sites and instant messaging teenagers appear to always be within reach, not just with their friends, but with bullies as well. A constant barrage of insults and lies all fabricated intentionally to hurt does serious damage on young minds who are striving to develop a sense of identity. This was the case when “13-year-old Ryan Patrick Halligan kill[ed] himself ...

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...rse than Physical Bullying." Pew Internet & American Life Project (27 June 2007). Rpt. in Media Violence. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 18 Jan. 2011.

Meech, Scott. "Cyber-Bullying Is Worse than Physical Bullying." Educators' eZine (1 May 2007). Rpt. in Media Violence. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 18 Jan. 2011.

Shariff, Shaheen, and Leanne Johnny. "Cyber-Libel and Cyber-Bullying: Can Schools Protect Student Reputations and Free-Expression in Virtual Environments?" Education Law Journal 16.3 (2007): 307. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 10 Jan. 2011.

TROLLER, SUSAN. "Cyber Bullying Common among Teens." Madison Capital Times2009: WEB. ProQuest Newsstand. Web. 10 Jan. 2011 .

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