Schools are being given guidance urging them to take firm action against pupils who use mobile phones and the internet to bully other children and teachers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7005389.stm
"We're going to get you tomorrow, you look like an ugly ****.
"There's no point in you wearing make-up because you look like a clown.
"You ****, no-one is going to touch you because you're a lesbian. You are a **** and you look like one. You need to get some friends because you have none."
(it appears theese text messages have been turned into real sentences, but they are still hard to follow)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7006473.stm
What do you think?
there is currently more talk of a higher level of mointioring and restriction in county council schools (internet sites would all be blocked, except select ones a teacher or administrator would unblock for the session) , as well as all emails being screened sent within school (most schools and colleges already use filters to pick up racism)
I was bullied from when i first went to school, everyone is. which did follow up until secondary school... which still does leave me wondering if people are going to hit me when they wave their arms near me, and my normal walking posture is to have one hand in a fist next to me just incase...
I'm now at college and by the deffintion of being bullied, i am, but i dont see that i am its just a joke between friends.
theese children are getting told they are ugly, sworn at, and getting threatened to get beaten up ... but doesn't every kid get something like that while growing up (except the bullies out there ;) ) hell i was once attacked from behind by a fellow student 2 years ago he hits me over the back and shoulders with a metal chairleg he had snapped off a chair (sadly he was aiming for my head and being the idiot he was, missed)
I'm all for Anti - E-bullying compaigns but as it goes if you have a mobile in school, it'll get taken, the talking of forcing sites like myspace to ban individuals from posting there dislike for someone by the British goverment education department and what are myspace meant to say? , No, we won't let you remove a case of "E-bullying" ...
On the plus side, what can we do to aid victims who recieve text messages threatening them..... who recieve emails with insults and everyday lives are made hell..
What can we do?
what do you think?
are you as school pupils or as students loosing more and more freedoms everyday?
