Cyberbullying

SMH article discussing cyberbullying.

There is an implication here that teachers don't fully understand social sites like MySpace and thus cannot control cyberbullying. Tell me, were teachers ever able to control bullying? I was bullied in high school. This happened right under the teacher's noses. They weren't able to stop it or help. How the hell are they supposed to stop it online? How did this get dumped into teacher's laps? This is a parenting issue. If your kid is a bully you have to take your kid to councilling to get them out of the habit.

That said, if the kid is a bully the parent is probably a bully too. Thus the parent wont believe reports of the kid's bullying so they probably wont seek councilling.

I just have to assume that this article is designed to generate more i-fear (fear of the internet) to support the proposed ISP filtering scheme. Filtering wont stop bullying. It wont keep kids out of social web sites. If you ban MySpace a dozen social networking sites will pop up in its place. The dozen probably already exist and are waiting for something like this to give them an opening on MySpace's market share.

Kids all have to have a mobile so that they can ring if the swarms of pedophiles leap out at them. Are you going to take their mobiles off them so that the bullies can't text them?

Bullying has been going on forever. Kids just have to grow out of it. Bullied kids cop it. Come up with a solution instead of blaming the easy targets.