We are guilty of "Cyber-Bullying"

Gonz

Gonz

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That's what one mom says

April 17, 2003

Parents Rally to Stop 'Cyber Bullying'
Calling Internet rumor mills harmful, some move to shut sites. Defenders say free speech is at stake.

By Erika Hayasaki and Jia-Rui Chong, Times Staff Writers


When Internet users log onto schoolscandals.com and click on the Beverly Hills High School link, they will find a message calling one student a "retard" who "deserves to go to hell." A posting in the Frost Middle School chat room describes a student as a "homosexual with a pigeon-like face and a penguin-like body."

Such name-calling and gossip about students are common on the 3-year-old Web site, similar to the crude messages scribbled inside of school bathroom stalls for decades but on a much larger scale.

That "cyber bullying" has an audience of tens of thousands, and it features links for chat rooms about nearly 100 Southern California middle and high schools, particularly in the San Fernando Valley. As a result, parents and school administrators are calling for the site's closure, contending much of its content is libelous and harmful.
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Piss off you retard. I'll kick your cyber-ass.

Aunty is such a slut...wonder if she puts out ;)
 
You know, to actually address the topic, do you think we really do our kids any favors by coddling them this way? At some point, they are going to have to be prepared to deal with the real world.
 
If the real world turns out to be anything like the Real World, I think they'd be appreciative that someone had the compassion to try and protect them at least a little while from all the bullshit. :rolleyes:
 
First rule in a bar...no talking politics & no talking religion.

flurffmeister said:
someone had the compassion to try and protect them at least a little while from all the bullshit.
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kids are the meanest people on earth. if you've never noticed, kid that go to, say, Catholic schools, and wear uniforms still have ways of distinguishing peers. To an adult they all look alike, to the kids they spot minor details & use them to give shit. Bathroom stalls are a rumor feeding frenzy.
 
Gonz said:
kids are the meanest people on earth
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I kind of disagree, Gonz. It's not so much that they're mean (although some certainly are) as that they haven't learned that actions and attitudes have consequences. That's why I'm in favor of corporal punishment in the schools (and in fact in society in general). Whack these brats across the ass in assembly hall. If it isn't cruel and unusual, then it isn't really punishment. Just my opinion.
 
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