Personally I believe that schools should have a program set in place to monitor students more closely but at time have a program that doesn't step too much into a student's personal life. In addition to this schools also need to set in age-appropriate punishments that need to have a lasting and meaningful effect on online bullies. In order to accomplish this our schools should work more closely with parents or guardians in order to enforce these punishments or rules on students. What do you think should schools have more influence on it's student's lives or should it stay the way it is?
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Should schools have more power in order to prevent online bullying?
While reading the Room for Debate article titled "Should Schools Regulate Student's Off-Campus Behavior" by Kevin Noble Millard, I had wondered how much power does a school have in a student's life. Turns out it's not that much as a school's power only affects us when we are on campus during school hours. There really is no set program in place to help combat online bullying and there is no way for schools to know what a student is posting on social media. This makes it very easy for students to get away with online bullying which can affect the victim's academic and social life. There are currently no set punishments for students who bully online and bringing someone who did online bullying to justice is a very difficult process.
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I believe that schools should not have more power in order to prevent online bullying unless the online bullying is taking place on school campus. Let's say someone's using a school computer to bully someone online, then they should definitely take action and have control on that. But if someone's doing it from their mobile device at their home, I don't believe that schools should be monitoring that. The victim can obviously visit their school counselor to talk about the situation to an extent. Insulting someone online can easily be handled with a simple block, but if someone's spreading rumors then I think it's necessary to visit a school counselor.
ReplyDeleteI am really split on this topic because if there is a program set in place, it could invade a student's privacy. However, this could decrease the chances of a student being bullied online. I have seen a constant pattern where a student being bullied on the internet is afraid to approach an adult, as it could trigger the bully into making the situation worse. I strongly believe schools should take more action into preventing online bullying. Every year students view the "Anti-bullying" video inside the gym, and the video is seen as a joke. There should be more anti-bullying awareness projects going around school rather than just a "dress-up" week or a three minute video. The school could improve the three minute video by showing a true story based movie on cyber bullying, and what the consequences of it could be. Before schools inject themselves into the idea of monitoring a student's social media, they should start improving on how they present awareness on bullying.
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