Amanda Todd Persuasive Speech
October 10th 2012, was the day mother Carol Todd will never forget. " My body was in shock. It`s so easy to go into that revenge mode straight away and want to get even with everybody, but I`m not sure if that ever came about " daughter Amanda was the tragic victim of cyberbullying, taking her own life at the age of 15.
Amanda Todd made a video and shared her 2 year struggles and experience with the world. She expressed herself with cards with writing on it the first card stated "Hello, I've decided to tell you about my never ending story". She received a message from a stranger asking her to show her chest she complied. Over Christmas break (1 year later) Todd said the police came to her house at 4:00am to tell her that the pictures of …show more content…
If these statistics are calculated from a 10 year time period this shows that 45,000 kids will have committed suicide due to cyberbullying.
Teacher Melike Gorali at Seaford Carrum secondary College has been a teacher for 15 years and she's found that cyberbullying is increasing dramatically, especially in the past years, " We as teachers need to work together as a community to increase awareness of cyberbullying and try and find strategies to implement improvements." She has dealt with a number of cyberbullying incidences which has involved police intervention and criminal charges being laid. That occurred between her students which she was involved in and she found that it was very dramatic for the victims and their families.
A large portion of Australian children have mobile phones with internet which makes it as simple as a tap, or click of a button to become a victim, or cyberbully another. Many of these children are at a young age, in years as low as year three. The accessibility of these sites are far too easy to access therefor more kids at younger ages that may not no important skills and information about cyber safety may fall into the trap of being a victim of
Amanda Todd made a video and shared her 2 year struggles and experience with the world. She expressed herself with cards with writing on it the first card stated "Hello, I've decided to tell you about my never ending story". She received a message from a stranger asking her to show her chest she complied. Over Christmas break (1 year later) Todd said the police came to her house at 4:00am to tell her that the pictures of …show more content…
If these statistics are calculated from a 10 year time period this shows that 45,000 kids will have committed suicide due to cyberbullying.
Teacher Melike Gorali at Seaford Carrum secondary College has been a teacher for 15 years and she's found that cyberbullying is increasing dramatically, especially in the past years, " We as teachers need to work together as a community to increase awareness of cyberbullying and try and find strategies to implement improvements." She has dealt with a number of cyberbullying incidences which has involved police intervention and criminal charges being laid. That occurred between her students which she was involved in and she found that it was very dramatic for the victims and their families.
A large portion of Australian children have mobile phones with internet which makes it as simple as a tap, or click of a button to become a victim, or cyberbully another. Many of these children are at a young age, in years as low as year three. The accessibility of these sites are far too easy to access therefor more kids at younger ages that may not no important skills and information about cyber safety may fall into the trap of being a victim of