Dbq Cyber Bullying Research Paper

Do you think students are posting mean and illegal things? Well yes they do. They don’t care about other people's feelings or what they might go through. Some students are posting mean things about people. Some people who are getting bullied are teachers, principals, and fellow classmates. Is it better for schools to supervise what students post during schools hours and after school hours? I believe schools should limit students online speech lots of kids are getting cyberbullied, it is disrupting education, and is violating the civil rights law.

Cyberbullying is a bad thing in this world right now because lots of kids are taking their lives because of it. It states in Document C, ” School administrators concluded that K.K. had created a “hate website,” in violation of the schools

According to Document D it states, “ Randy Nunemacher, a Middle School math teacher, experienced a disruption in his class when six or seven students were talking and discussing the profile; Nunemacher had to tell the students to stop talking three times, and raised his voice on the third occasion.” (Doc D) This is proof because the profile was disrupting the students education when they were talking about the profile in class and the teacher caused other students not to learn when he had to raise his voice. Based on the information presented in Document D it states, ” This Pennsylvania case arose when the school district suspended J.S. for creating, on a weekend and on her home computer, a MySpace profile (“the profile”) making fun of her middle school principal, James McGonigle.”(Doc D) I know this because J.S. made it on her home computer which is not disrupting classmates education because she created it at home and not at her school. Some people say we shouldn’t limit students online speech, but I think schools should limit students online speech because it is disrupting other students and their own