Punishing Cyber-bullies: An Argument For Handling Cyberbullying

Punishing Cyberbullies: An Argument For Handling Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying has been an issue for the United States throughout every school and surprisingly expressing harmful effects onto the students. Students in the US may have once experienced the Internet use of harassment and may have gotten used to ignoring the harassments. However, some students face severe cyberbullying that even cost them their life, mental stability, and the push to go to school. The schools should track down and punish students for on and off campus cyberbullying or else students face negativity, low attendance, suicidal thoughts, and interrupting lessons. Moreover, schools need to provide presentations to prevent cyberbullying from happening again. Therefore,

According to an online article entitled “N.J. School District Set to Battle Cyber Bullies,” Cindy Hsu describes a student’s comment on allowing teachers to have the right to report cases of cyberbullying. In the article, Hsu records a senior student Carole Johnson’s opinion in which she states, “I think it’s a good idea because if they don’t take action, it’s just going to keep happening and people are going to get hurt.” Moreover, without prevention or education of cyberbullying and the lack of protection to students cyberbullying will hurt more people and the harm will never end until the school does something about cyberbullying. By adding rules and regulation to the student policies, the school can help stop and punish bullies. Based on an online article called “School Response to Cyberbullying and Sexting,” Nancy Willard writes about school allowing overreaction of punishing students involved in cyberbullying whether they are the victim or not. Willard describes that, “The highly predictable consequence of this police overreaction is to place the student depicted at exceptionally high risk of intense harassment by peers...place[ing] the student at high risk of suicide.” In an effective way, schools would need to have a direct discipline onto the bullies and also making sure the students that might have been affected by bullies have an understanding of preventing bullying. In addition, students who learn and understand cyberbullying will be well practiced when situations arise in student’s school life. Schools who enforce educational knowledge on stopping cyberbullying have a better support for protection and awareness towards the