Proposing a Sloution
February 13, 2011
Cyber Bullying When social networking websites were created in the 20th century they were used as a way for people to “stay connected and share with friends”, and they provided others with “a place for friends”. Pre-teens and young adults were drawn to these websites and they began to use these sites to communicate with each other. As the popularity of the social networks increased so did privacy issues. The online article “Why we’ll never Escape Facebook” James Cowan states, “Facebook changes privacy policies at whim, makes it difficult to control personal information and hoards users ' data.” Because of some of the recent changes in the privacy settings some of the sites users are becoming the victims of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is affecting many school aged children and it is the responsibility of school administrators to ensure that the technology within the school is not being used for cyber bullying. School board administrators are responsible for ensuring that students have a healthy and safe learning environment. If administrators do not make sure that student’s basic needs are being met they are basically contributing to the unfair treatment of children who are enrolled in their particular school. School boards who are seeing a constant increase in the amount of cyber bullying have implemented programs that are in place to educate students on ways to prevent cyber bullying. These particular programs also educate students about the dangers and the consequences of cyber bullying. Other possible solutions to solving this problem would be to limit access to the technology that can be used in schools and to create a school environment that makes children feel comfortable expressing their problems. The main solution to this problem depends on administrators. School board administrators should not allow social networking sites in the academic setting even if teachers do feel that they are a good educational tool. In today’s
Cyber Bullying When social networking websites were created in the 20th century they were used as a way for people to “stay connected and share with friends”, and they provided others with “a place for friends”. Pre-teens and young adults were drawn to these websites and they began to use these sites to communicate with each other. As the popularity of the social networks increased so did privacy issues. The online article “Why we’ll never Escape Facebook” James Cowan states, “Facebook changes privacy policies at whim, makes it difficult to control personal information and hoards users ' data.” Because of some of the recent changes in the privacy settings some of the sites users are becoming the victims of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is affecting many school aged children and it is the responsibility of school administrators to ensure that the technology within the school is not being used for cyber bullying. School board administrators are responsible for ensuring that students have a healthy and safe learning environment. If administrators do not make sure that student’s basic needs are being met they are basically contributing to the unfair treatment of children who are enrolled in their particular school. School boards who are seeing a constant increase in the amount of cyber bullying have implemented programs that are in place to educate students on ways to prevent cyber bullying. These particular programs also educate students about the dangers and the consequences of cyber bullying. Other possible solutions to solving this problem would be to limit access to the technology that can be used in schools and to create a school environment that makes children feel comfortable expressing their problems. The main solution to this problem depends on administrators. School board administrators should not allow social networking sites in the academic setting even if teachers do feel that they are a good educational tool. In today’s
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