Cyber Bullying

In case you didn't know cyber bullying is a big problem in the school. Cyber bullying is bullying by using electronic devices and shared over the internet or by cell phones. The school is trying to prevent this by trying to educate the students on the subject. The school has a whole page on the Spartan.org website on the subject. This page includes information on cyber bullying in general and how to try to prevent it. It also has the legal consequences if you are caught bullying someone and you could get in trouble from in school suspension all the way to expulsion and depending on how bad the case is you could also get in trouble with the government. The school tries to talk to the students parents on the subject to let them be aware of the situation.

Some things that happen because of cyber bullying are public embarrassment, nasty messages, and inappropriate pictures are all posted on the internet for the public to see. The thing that you need to remember is that once someone posts something on the internet it spreads and then everybody believes it. Some reasons that people cyber bully is because it's easy. People would prefer to bully someone online then to bully them face to face. The bully bullies to have a greater feeling about themselves and to have control of the person that they are bullying.

One of the hardest things about being a guidance counselor is that they are the last people to know that someone is being bullied. Another problem is that the counselor very rarely knows the bully. Most bullies don't want to talk and the bullies has to want to change themselves. The victim has to come in and talk to their guidance counselor about what happened in order for the counselor to be able to help them. The most common reason that bully victims don't come in and talk to someone is because they're afraid that they will be bullied even more by going and telling on someone.

A common reason for bullies to bully is that a lot of times the bully was bullied when they were younger and are still mad so they want to be mean to other people so that they can feel better about themselves. Other times the bully's personality is aggressive and they just want to control people. A big difference between high school and middle school bullying is that in middle school it was just name calling or getting pushed randomly but in high school it turns into harassment and the school can bring in the police. There have been many cases of cyber bullying but some recent cases are the distribution of inappropriate pictures through cell phones and e-mails. There have been many cases where this has happened to someone and they end up committing suicide, this is why the school is informing us so much on the subject so that they can try to prevent any possibilities of this happening to any of their students.