Blogging- Against Bullying on the Internet
During kindergarten on up in life you will notice the bullying life. People not only do it face to face but on the internet as well. Now day technology has social web pages as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace that people are constantly posting mean and hurtful things. David L. Hudson has made a book containing on how school officials are trying to handle this matter in their own hands and taken to the court of law. The jury points out “that the first amendment protects critical speech on the Internet” (63). I feel that if the parents were more involved in learning the new types of technology and following them on these social websites they are more likely to solve the problem before they start. Also, when school officials learn this they should bring it to a parent-teacher conference to see what the trouble is and try to find out a solution that better suits both parties.
With these gestures given to teachers outside of school I do not think that they should be punished in school for something outside the campus and not on some school trip. To me this is unnecessary. Because everyone is entitled to their own opinion and they seem to take it another way. I don’t believe that children should be throwing gestures up like that but still it was not right to take matters in their own hands without consulting the parents first.
I believe if parents would just stop and talk to their kids and spend more time with them it might just be a better place.
Works Cited
Hudson, David. Blogging. Chelsea House, 2007. University of Oklahoma Libraries’. < http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/lib/sooner/docDetail.action?docID=10284452>.
Kesha,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you that it is up to the parents to properly observe and regulate their children. Technology poses a problem for many parents these days as they are cast into a world with rapidly developing technology that it seems their children understand better and quicker. It is no surprise that many parents are in the dark with regards to their children’s online activities, but unfortunately ignorance is no excuse for a lack in parental oversight. I agree with you when you say that parents should spend more time with their children, perhaps this would even offer them the ability to pick up on some of the latest technological tricks and gadgets that their kids are using.
I also think that it is a parent’s most sacred responsibility to ensure their children’s safety, both physical and mental. If a child is going through online bullying so bad to the point where they are contemplating hurting themselves then they should be exhibiting some signs that are unusual and it is up to the parents to look out for these things and be aware of what is happening in their children’s lives.
It is not the school’s responsibility to mediate every argument between kids and it certainly should not be the school’s responsibility to delve into the online world’s of all of their students.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Erik S. Krausen