Cyberbullying: Abuse and New York State
Who Are We Protecting?
Bullying is an issue that has become more prevalent we must create laws to tackle this issue now. If you were to see bullying happen right in front of you who would you defend? I would defend the person being bullied and not the instigator. We should be concentrating our efforts on protecting the victim not the problem. In the era of computers and networking, we face many new issues that can have very real consequences. We have lost many young lives due to this new technology, and even though it may be great to keep up with friends and family, not everyone is using this new technology for good. Many kids are getting bullied online in places like Facebook and Myspace, and in most of the cases, the kids are not of the age listed by the company to be able to open an account. This rule is partly to take into account the maturity level of the person holding the account. The people having their self-esteem smothered should be the people we should be protecting with these new laws. We have had many new issues come from the internet including; online harassment, cyberbullying, hacking, identity theft…etc. The internet has created this virtual world that some people feel is separate from their real lives. One of the new laws for New York State is the Laws of New York Chapter 102, and this new law will be enacted on July 1st, 2013. This law is holding the schools accountable for the safety of the student in and out of school. With my child attending a public school which will be affected by this law, it will be beneficial to him.
This law, which will soon be enacted, was a previous education law that has been amended to help curb some of the new problems the schools have now been facing concerning cyberbullying. These problems have been spilling over into the “safe” school learning environment. This new law does recognize that most of the bullying happens off of school grounds, but they understand also that what happens out of
Bullying is an issue that has become more prevalent we must create laws to tackle this issue now. If you were to see bullying happen right in front of you who would you defend? I would defend the person being bullied and not the instigator. We should be concentrating our efforts on protecting the victim not the problem. In the era of computers and networking, we face many new issues that can have very real consequences. We have lost many young lives due to this new technology, and even though it may be great to keep up with friends and family, not everyone is using this new technology for good. Many kids are getting bullied online in places like Facebook and Myspace, and in most of the cases, the kids are not of the age listed by the company to be able to open an account. This rule is partly to take into account the maturity level of the person holding the account. The people having their self-esteem smothered should be the people we should be protecting with these new laws. We have had many new issues come from the internet including; online harassment, cyberbullying, hacking, identity theft…etc. The internet has created this virtual world that some people feel is separate from their real lives. One of the new laws for New York State is the Laws of New York Chapter 102, and this new law will be enacted on July 1st, 2013. This law is holding the schools accountable for the safety of the student in and out of school. With my child attending a public school which will be affected by this law, it will be beneficial to him.
This law, which will soon be enacted, was a previous education law that has been amended to help curb some of the new problems the schools have now been facing concerning cyberbullying. These problems have been spilling over into the “safe” school learning environment. This new law does recognize that most of the bullying happens off of school grounds, but they understand also that what happens out of
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