Limiting Students Online Speech

Grabber- We are all privileged to live in a free nation, where we can do what we desire. But, what if one day you were told that your school can monitor your every action on the interweb and can punish you for your online activities on and off campus? Well, certainly many students would protest without hesitating, for that they would no longer have privacy.

Background- Well limiting a person’s speech online certainly isn’t a thought that just came out of the blue. It started as people, particularly young students, and their use of technology to freely share their thoughts on social media sites. And what became of it was more of bullying one’s peers online than just sharing one’s innocent opinion. But schools are meant to be a safe learning

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Baby Thesis: Schools should not be able to limit students’ online speech because cyberbullying is proven to not affect most students and teachers.

Evidence (Concrete Detail): Be sure to cite your document.- According to Document B, out of the total number of British teachers surveyed about how cyberbullying had affected them, 38.6%, which is the highest percentage, said that they were not affected.

Argument (Commentary): Connecting the evidence to the thesis- Based from the data in Document B, we can assume that if the highest percentage of the surveyed British teachers said they were not affected by cyberbullying, then other teachers in other nations and schools would most likely be the same. In addition, the effect of cyberbullying varies for different individuals. Therefore, what we can never assume is that everyone will be offended or take it seriously when they are cyberbullied.

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Baby Thesis: Schools should not limit students’ online speech because it is actually not that

Well, based from both evidence from Document D and F, we can conclude that cyberbullying and its effect is just another form of bullying, but is just being exaggerated or, in other words, is made a bigger deal out of what it real is. In Document D, the fact that cyberbullying is not very disruptive is because a classroom discussion about a certain topic is very normal. It would not be a surprise if the topic of the principal's profile was discussed. Therefore, we can never conclude that a student’s speech online has triggered a disruption in the classroom