Monitoring Student Research Paper
The Real Outcome of Monitoring Student Social Media Accounts
Schools in many districts have decided to start monitoring student social media accounts when they see signs of cyberbullying or even self harm on the students accounts. The goal of this project was to protect students and to prevent cyberbullying. Schools should not monitor students social media accounts because students should learn about online safety, it limits free speech, and bullies online tend to be bullies offline. First, some students and parents feel as if having schools monitor students social media accounts isn’t allowing students to learn about online safety. Instead of monitoring student accounts and making students feel uncomfortable, schools should teach students …show more content…
Bullying happens offline and online and it often extends beyond the schools. Schools want to monitor accounts in order to stop cyberbullying and prevent self harm but the problem is larger than online. Bullying has a large impact of students emotions and thoughts and can often lead to self harm, suicide, depression, anxiety, and a number of different things. If schools want to stop bullying they need to focus on more than social media. Monitoring social media accounts is only stopping cyberbullying, but what about bullying at school. While cyberbullying is “easier to commit, the kids who bully online also tend to bully at school.” (Source 3). To stop bullying online and offline, schools should invest
Turner 3 in a good guidance counselor who specializes in this area and can help students. Schools monitoring student accounts allows schools to have the power to stop cyberbullying but they can't stop there. Schools need to focus on the big picture of online and offline bullying. In conclusion, should not monitor student social media accounts. Even though the main goal of this project is to prevent self harm and cyberbullying, there is still a lot the schools are missing. Schools should not monitor student social media accounts because students should learn about online safety, it limits free speech, and it wouldn’t change the outcome of bullying online or at
Schools in many districts have decided to start monitoring student social media accounts when they see signs of cyberbullying or even self harm on the students accounts. The goal of this project was to protect students and to prevent cyberbullying. Schools should not monitor students social media accounts because students should learn about online safety, it limits free speech, and bullies online tend to be bullies offline. First, some students and parents feel as if having schools monitor students social media accounts isn’t allowing students to learn about online safety. Instead of monitoring student accounts and making students feel uncomfortable, schools should teach students …show more content…
Bullying happens offline and online and it often extends beyond the schools. Schools want to monitor accounts in order to stop cyberbullying and prevent self harm but the problem is larger than online. Bullying has a large impact of students emotions and thoughts and can often lead to self harm, suicide, depression, anxiety, and a number of different things. If schools want to stop bullying they need to focus on more than social media. Monitoring social media accounts is only stopping cyberbullying, but what about bullying at school. While cyberbullying is “easier to commit, the kids who bully online also tend to bully at school.” (Source 3). To stop bullying online and offline, schools should invest
Turner 3 in a good guidance counselor who specializes in this area and can help students. Schools monitoring student accounts allows schools to have the power to stop cyberbullying but they can't stop there. Schools need to focus on the big picture of online and offline bullying. In conclusion, should not monitor student social media accounts. Even though the main goal of this project is to prevent self harm and cyberbullying, there is still a lot the schools are missing. Schools should not monitor student social media accounts because students should learn about online safety, it limits free speech, and it wouldn’t change the outcome of bullying online or at