Schrock and Boyd provide some insight on the impact of media and the Internet on our younger audience. The reaching out for information is also a reach in by outsiders. Our legal system, once a concrete set of objectives and outline of traditional beliefs, are now being forced to make decisions due to the questionable actions of people online. What are the boundaries for interactions anymore? Are the percentages of inappropriate behavior really accurate?
My thoughts. Since the advent of mobile and instant communications many students in secondary education have used instant messages to deal with argument or disharmony. Most of these deal with relationships and dating, so their motivations are to make threatening actions towards each other behind closed doors. Now many schools now use printout of a threat as grounds for school discipline. Even the police look into matters now that students have printed proof or screen shot of a threat by another student. We are mandated to take OLWEUS (bullying training program) to learn about the subliminal and blatant actions of students. I find it unfortunate that teachers have to be tied down to take action on issues like these outside of school. Enforcement of discipline for actions such as these take more time out of our day.
What's the OLWEUS bullying training program like? Do they talk about the use of CMC for bullying?
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