More on Cyber Bullying
Happy New Year!
The Christian Science Monitor has published an excellent article on the topic of online bullying, including text messaging on phones, instant messaging, camera phones and websites. It’s an issue that teachers and principals should be very aware of, because these online tools can make an already distressing problem into a much more powerful attack on students. It also makes anti-bullying efforts an even higher priority, as our wired world makes it so much easier for students to act on impulse to harrass one of their peers. We need to target the behavior, because the tools aren’t going away.
The article is at www.csmonitor.com/2003/1230/p11s01-legn.html.