Is the threat of bullying a real threat to kids today? Bullying has been a threat for a long time in schools and adding the new advances in technology such as cell phones, twitter and facebook bullying is now being done online and school learning is being affected. Schools should have the power to limit students’ online speech because the percent of boys and girls being cyberbullied is raising, teachers teaching ability is being affected, and students learning in class is being affected. One reason schools should have the power to limit their students online speech is cyberbullying is now a problem in the United States. The Cyberbullying Research Center posted statistics in February 2010 saying 16.6% of males between the ages of 10-18 have been cyberbullied and 25.1% of females ages between 10-18 have also been cyberbullied (Doc A). This statistic shows that cyberbullying is becoming a problem for students and the bullying can continue in school and affect the students learning and can cause classroom disturbance. In 2015 the Cyberbullying Research Center released statistics showing …show more content…
When any student harasses another student or teacher using that person's race, color, national origin, sex, or disability, it violates the civil rights laws that OCR enforces (Doc G). If a person’s civil rights are being violated by another student the school should have the power to limit the student’s online speech because any other place in the US the student would receive a severe punishment. Teens from the ages 12-18 were interviewed to see what race of people were bullied the most the interviews showed that at least 54% of all Asian Americans were being bullied about race (DCentric) which can violates the student’s civil rights. The bullying was done in person or in the class but was mainly done online where the schools don’t have power to stop
There is an increase in cyberbullying due to technology, the school has the right to protect their students, and it affects how teachers work. Numerous individuals trust that punishing students for what they say outside of school goes against the First Amendment, yet in the event that it disturbs the wellbeing of the student body, something should be done. At the point when students are included with cyberbullying, it unquestionably goes past the school's doors and influences not only the student, but the general population around
They support the efforts that many state departments of education have taken to reduce bullying.
Students do not always realize that their free speech can go against certain limits that the Supreme Court has issued on this freedom. The US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights suggests that harassment creates a hostile environment when the conduct is sufficiently severe or persistent so as to interfere with or limit a students' ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the school. (Doc. G) In consonance with this, it is the school's responsibility to address harassment incidents to protect students' privacy rights. Allowing full access to the first amendment in schools can often result in the violation of the fourth amendment by infringing privacy rights. There are many forms of harassment that can violate students' civil rights. According to the same department, harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, or disability violates the civil rights laws that the OCR enforces. (Doc. G) Cyberbullying often falls into these categories which are all violations of civil rights, and many schools may not have proper standards for this violation. It is the school's responsibility to protect the civil rights of students, teachers, and administrators, so they must take a stand against discrimination, including online speech. Not only does cyberbullying contravene with civil rights, it also causes emotional
“We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say” said the comedian Tracy Morgan. And he was correct. In this modern world today, numerous students abuse the First Amendment. Over the media, students are posting comments, videos, stories, etc. about other students and teachers. These students are cyberbullies. The schools should be allowed to limit students’ online speech because cyber bullying privacy and dignity are important, it hurts feelings, and affects the school.
Many students from a sample of 10-18 year olds, 16.6 percent of boys, and 25.1 percent of girls believe that they had been bullied in their life. Surprisingly, 17.5 percent of boys, and 21.3 percent of girls felt that even they have cyberbullied before. ( Doc A). Cyberbullying is shown to happen to many teenagers, and is thus quite popular in modern day schools. Cyberbullying is shown to happen to a large percentage of the students.
On the issue of whether or not schools should be allowed to limit students’ online speech, I firmly believe that they shouldn’t. Doing so directly infringes upon the student’s first amendment rights to the freedom of speech, and for what? Numerous surveys have shown that cyberbullying isn’t a huge problem. Further, one document affirms the conclusion that cyberbullying is just another phase in the long-running evolution of bullying. With this essay, I aim to convince you that schools should not limit their students’ online speech, using my vast knowledge as well as cold hard facts.
Living now in the 21 century almost every student has a cell phone, computer, or some sort of access to the internet and technology and because the way we communicate has changed now, the way we bully is changing. Cyberbullying is turning into the new form of harassment as technology increases, and six middle school girls ages 12-13 thought to use this new method of online bullying to create a facebook page verbally assaulting teachers they did not like and they even called the facebook page “‘Attack-a-School Day.’” They even got other kids involved in the abuse. The young teens were charged with misdemeanor but they tried to argue to side of free speech(case 2). One hundred percent the first amendment in the constitution should be followed
One of the reasons why schools should limit students online speech is a large variety of students and teachers get bullied or have been bullied in their lifetime. In February of 2010 and April of 2009 two surveys were taken, one for students and one for teachers. In the first survey it showed the number of boys and girls who have been bullied in their lifetime and
Document B in the DBQ “Should Schools Be Allowed to Limit Students’ Online Speech, ?” they surveyed British School Teachers about their experience and effects of bullying. Only 15.1% of teachers admitted to being cyber bullied over mobile, phone, and email. They then expressed who the person responsible for the misdeed was. The highest percentage was 44.2%, which was under the category of their pupils. Like most people bullying of all sorts would affect them in some way. About 38.6% of teachers said that the bullying had no effect on them. Another 38.6% of them said that the bullying reduced their confidence and self-esteem. This shows that not only students are the ones being bullied but so are teachers. This should help make sure that everybody and everything is kept under
One reason why schools shouldn’t limit students’ online speech is not that many teachers get bullied on mobile phones, email, or over the internet. In document B it says that only 84.9% of teachers weren’t bullied. 15.1% for the teachers get harassed. Out of that 15.1%, 38.6% of the teachers say their lives
Schools all across the world have been struggling with the issue of online cyberbullying and how to deal with it.There has been many cases blowing up the different courts in America arguing for their right of free speech online even if that entails “cyberbullying”.The question “Should Student’s Online Freedom of Speech be Limited?” has been floating around the school of America.From my point of view I believe it should not be limited because there is no research to prove that bullying online is more dangerous than offline, secondly being able to deal with peers your age saying whatever they please will prepare you for the real world when there aren’t any rules, and lastly if schools do limit online speech they would be violating the freedom
Document A shows that nearly twenty percent of students are cyberbullies, and more than twenty percent of students have been cyberbullied. According to Document B, cyberbullying affects one in ten teachers personally. Cyberbullying affects the privacy, confidence, productivity of teachers and students alike. It is as large a problem as actual bullying, and the quick spreading of everything posted online amplifies the effects of cyberbullying. Schools everywhere concentrate so much of their effort to combat on-campus bullying, they have no excuse to overlook cyberbullying, which affects as many people, and as at least as dangerous as actual
Also, it stated that despite being cleared by two physicians to take medicine for her migraines, she was denied access. KMR and her mother lost he case due to “failed sufficient showing on essential elements of their claims against the individual faculty and failed to overcome the qualified immunity defense” (Reyna v. Indep. Sch. Dist.). This case proves that teachers are unaware about what constitutes as bullying. In an article titled “Student cyberbullying inside the digital schoolhouse gate: Toward a standard for determining where a “school” is”, it looks at the consequences cyberbullying has, while analyzing the pressure caused by cyberbullying and the first Amendment (Primack, A. J., & Johnson, K. A. 2017). In the article “Cyberbullying and teachers awareness” the purpose of the article was to discover the level and extent of awareness between teachers in relation to cyberbullying and cyber security within their lives. The authors used a survey method with 184 teachers at various places during the 2012-2013 school year, and it was found that the awareness of the teachers varied according to branch, gender, and internet frequency
Social Networking has taken bullying to the extreme. Before advanced technology, children and teenagers were troubled by school bullies. Today, they are targeted by bullies via internet. Most people undergo some form of bullying in life. Growing up, I experienced the typical name calling and spiteful comments. I also dealt with minor cases of virtual bullies. These bullies are known as cyber bullies. I find this topic compelling because it’s a matter that has spiraled out of control.
While social media and electronic means for communication have been around the better part of fifteen years, the past ten years have overall shown increases in cyberbullying. Although bullying in general over the past decade has been at a consistent rate, or in some cases even declining, cyberbullying on the average has been rising over the past decade. Statistics regarding