Second Argument
When administrators are focusing on the issue of cyberbullying, they often focus on the wrong issues at hand. Administrators often get involved with events of cyberbullying but seem to be focusing excessively on those and not the real issues concerning the kids. Some kids will say they are getting cyberbullied while the real issues are happening in person or even at home. A child might be getting slandered at home by their parents or siblings and be too afraid to say it, so they claim to be victims of cyberbullying. These false accusations lead to administrators focusing on the wrong issue at hand. Tim Cushing in his article "The Cyberbullying Problem Is Overhyped" implies that instead of focusing on some real issues that kids might be going through the administrators tend to focus on common incidents among teens (par. 20). Arguments occur very often among people, and yes, hurtful comments can be said in an argument. If someone is to get in argument their attitude tends to grow with time. If people are complaining constantly and have time to ponder and over think on what is said, especially if they are able to sit there and view what was said online because it will stay there, then they become more aggravated and could say some extremely hurtful comments. It is all a matter of how the person interprets the comments and if they truly take them to heart instead of trying to let it go. Larry Magid in his article "Cyberbullying Among Students Is Serious, but It Is Not an Epidemic" says, “And, of course, different children will react differently to incidents depending on a number of factors including their own physiological makeup, vulnerability and resiliency” (par. 18). Some kids are capable of not letting hurtful comments get to them due to believing in their self and having high levels of confidence, but that is not the case for all. Some teens and children see comments and relate them to thoughts they have had of themselves already, so it effects some of the victims more than others. Teens and kids say “hurtful” words to each other all the time, so making this evidence towards widespread bullying is absurd (Cushing par. 17). This again, goes along with taking these extremely common comments out of hand. If people were to observe how kids in middle school talk to each other throughout the day, they would be overwhelmed with the amount of hurtful words that are meant to be taken as jokes. It would also be noticed how some of the students react to the comments with laughs, while some take them to heart and think they are being picked on or “bullied.” Again leading to how the comments are interpreted different by different people.
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