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3/8/2016 10:28:24 What is Cyberbullying? Phillips Direct Quote par. 5Cyberbullying is the use of internet or other digital devices such as E-mail, instant messaging, text messages, social networking sites, web pages, blogs, chat rooms or interactive game sites to send negative and harmful messages and images. For one to understand the issues involving cyberbullying, the must know what cyberbullying is.
3/9/2016 10:10:48Why Cyberbully People? Phillips Paraphrase par. 16Cyberbullying is often meant to make the victim have feelings of humiliation, fear, and hopelessness, which can lead to suicide to people all over due to the easy access to bully through internet. I thought this would show the reader how bullies intend for people to feel, but can have terrible results
3/11/2016 10:05:45Instant access Phillips Paraphrase par. 19the thought of how cyber-bullying is so easily done and spread out throughout the web for easy access to others who can quickly save and spread the hurtful posts. Making people have a better understanding as to why cyber-bullying is so scary.
3/11/2016 10:21:29Reached Thailand Phillips Direct Quote par. 20"Reported in Cyber Bully: Bullying in a Digital Age, David Knight, a high school student who found that a web page of negative, sexual accusations and negative descriptions about him had reached as far as Thailand" That is a considerably long distance.
3/11/2016 10:29:414 in 10 teens Phillips Direct Quote par. 21"Four in ten teens have experienced online bullying; girls are twice as likely to be victims and perpetrators, usually engaging in social sabotage of others; boys are more likely to target girls and less aggressive males" statistics help for better understanding
3/13/2016 14:23:46Bullying Poll Uhls Direct Quote par. 7A recent study which separated different types of bullying was completed in 2005 in a survey of 7200 US 6-10th grade students; this study found that over a 2 month period, 13.3% of the students reported that they had bullied others at least once physically, 37.4% verbally, 27.2% socially, and 8.3% electronically. Statistics always make a paper more solid.
3/13/2016 23:31:50Swedish School stats Uhls Paraphrase par. 8A recent study from a Swedish school found that around 9% of students said to be bullied in school, while around 16% said to be bullied outside of school.
3/14/2016 2:42:01More Prevelant Uhls Direct Quote par. 10The good news is that it does not appear to be highly prevalent among youth, especially after one takes into account the frequency of the bullying behavior. The bad news is, in certain forms, it does seem to have more impact than other forms of bullying and can lead to a significant increase in depression for victims.
3/14/2016 2:53:02Not in rules Willard Paraphrase par. 8Courts have concluded that the school policies were too vague for off-campus events to be handled on-campus.
3/14/2016 2:57:24ResultsWillardDirect Quotepar. 11Research addressing cyberbullying has consistently revealed that these incidents can be exceptionally emotionally traumatic and frequently are related or contribute to school failure, school avoidance, violence at school—and sometimes youth suicide.
3/14/2016 5:13:09refrain from WillardDirect Quotepar. 15At first glance, this ruling may appear to suggest to school officials that they should refrain from intervening in any bullying or cyberbullying situations, on or off-campus, absent evidence of the potential for violence or a substantial disruption of school activities.
3/14/2016 5:19:42in order to interfereWillardParaphrasepar.24If school officials want to interfere with cyberbullying, and impose punishments, the actions being judged should either affect the learning of a student or their emotional security.Solid for this argument
3/14/2016 5:26:57other issuesMagidParaphrasepar. 4Although cyberbullying can contribute to some cases of suicide, most people had other issues than just cyberbullying to blame.Good argument sentence to use.
3/14/2016 5:28:37examples of issues Magid Paraphrase par. 4Usually the victims have depression, problems at home, or issues including their self-esteem.
3/14/2016 5:30:54SuicideMagidDirect Quotepar. 5"Suicide," said psychologist Dr. Patti Agatston, "is a complex and multifaceted act that is the result of a combination of factors in any individual.
3/14/2016 5:34:24populations and bullying Magid Paraphrase par. 8Different populations tend to experience different levels of ridicule, but gays, lesbians, and transgendered people tend to get it the worst.
3/14/2016 5:38:24Decreased bullying Magid Direct Quote par. 11Norms research from Professors H. Wesley Perkins and David Craig has shown that emphasizing that most kids don't bully actually decreases bullying.
3/14/2016 5:41:03hide identityMagidDirect Quotepar. 13She [Susan Limber] added, "a student willing to abuse technology can easily wield great power over his or her target just by having the ability to reach a large audience, and often by hiding his or her identity."
3/14/2016 7:30:55ResilienceMagidDirect Quote par. 18And, of course, different children will react differently to incidents depending on a number of factors including their own physiological makeup, vulnerability and resiliency.
3/14/2016 8:18:32Hurtful is common Cushing Paraphrase par. 17It is extremely common for kids and teens to say "hurtful" words to each other all the time so making this evidence towards widespread bullying is absurd.
3/14/2016 8:22:09Not half Cushing Paraphrase par. 20Many sites try to say that half of teens have been victims of cyberbullying while no study has been conducted with these results, but the actual findings were that 40% of teens with internet had been victims.
3/14/2016 8:37:23RepeatedCushingDirect Quote par. 22Dan Olweus, "father of bullying research," defines bullying as "aggressive behavior that is intentional and that invoices an imbalance of power. Most often, it is repeated over time."
3/14/2016 8:39:15not all are bullies Cushing Direct Quote par. 22While someone might feel "bullied" by a one-off interaction, defining every singular experience as "bullying" dilutes the meaning, leading to the punishment of non-bullies and diverting resources from dealing with real problems
3/14/2016 8:41:46Real issues Cushing Paraphrase par. 23Over-exaggerating what cyber bullying is leads to parents concerning over the technology rather than the real issues that the child could be facing.
3/14/2016 8:43:57Making it worse Cushing Direct Quote par. 28The study concluded that students at schools with anti-bullying programs might actually be more likely to become a victim of bullying. It also found that students at schools with no bullying programs were less likely to become victims.
3/14/2016 8:46:09Focused wrongly Cushing Paraphrase par. 30Instead of focusing on some real issues that kids might be going through the administrators tend to focus on common incidents among teens.
3/14/2016 8:50:14Lifetime stats"Cyberbullying Among Adolescents, by Gender. "Summary pg 1According to studies from a Midwestern school, 28.8% of males have been bullied in their lifetime, while 40.6% of females have been.
3/14/2016 8:51:40Have bullied - lifetime"Cyberbullying Among Adolescents, by Gender."Summary pg 1The study also shows that 15.5% of men have cyberbullied, while 14% of women have cyberbullied.
3/14/2016 8:57:29i-safe stats" Cyberbullying Among Adolescents, by Gender."Direct Quotepg 1According to Cyberbullying statistics from i-SAFE foundation, over 25% of adolescents have been bullied repeatedly through their cellphones or internet.
3/14/2016 9:10:49RIP Trolls Doucet Paraphrase par. 3The internet has people now referred to as "troll hunters" that make fun of the deaths of people for their amusement online.
3/14/2016 9:13:40Know the victim Doucet Direct Quote par. 6... more than half of cyber-stalkers know their victims personally, but the Internet has opened up myriad of sophisticated ways of hiding your identity, or stealing that of others, and the police's investigative capabilities are lagging woefully behind.
3/14/2016 9:21:07entwined with free speech Leichtling Direct Quote par. 5Laws pose "thorny issues" that are entwined with free speech. Again, that's no reason not to enter the thicket. That simply lets us know that the laws will have gray areas and both the law and the interpretations will be continuously evolving as hardened criminals find loopholes.
3/14/2016 9:25:13Why we need laws Leichtling Direct Quote par. 10Laws are made to state the standards to which we aspire and to diminish people's ability to harm others as much as possible.
3/14/2016 9:29:48illegal statements Leichtling Summary par. 6People believe that if anti-cyberbullying laws are made it would allow for hurtful words said on playgrounds all the time to not be legal online, but others argue that would be a good change.
3/14/2016 9:35:06Prohibiting statesHaywardDirect Quotepar. 1While forty-three states have anti-bullying statutes, only twenty-one prohibit cyber bullying...
3/14/2016 9:38:01Long Quote Hayward Direct Quote par. 2The statutes also usually contain language prohibiting cyber bullying if it results in one or more of the following: (1) causes "substantial disruption" of the school environment or orderly operation of the school, (2) creates an "intimidating," "threatening" or "hostile" learning environment, (3) causes actual harm to a student or student's property or places a student in reasonable fear of harm to self or property, (4) interferes with a student's educational performance and benefits, (5) includes as a target school personnel or references "person" rather than "student," and (6) incites third parties to carry out bullying behavior.
3/14/2016 9:39:58laws affects kids at home Hayward Paraphrase par. 3Laws affect students in a way that doesn't allow kids to go home and write over controversial issues without stressing saying something hurtful towards others.
3/14/2016 9:46:34identifying threats?HaywardParaphrase par. 5It is difficult to determine if teens or kids are being serious when being hateful or just kidding, because both could easily be occurring.
3/14/2016 9:55:32MassachusettsHaywardDirect Quote par. 20The Massachusetts statute defines the phrase as a "situation in which bullying causes the school environment to be permeated with intimidation, ridicule or insult that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the student's education."
3/14/2016 9:57:06free speech threat Hayward Direct Quote par. 23Anti-cyber bullying laws are the greatest threat to student free speech because they seek to censor it everywhere and anytime it occurs, using "substantial disruption" of school activities as justification and often based only on mere suspicion of potential disruption.
4/6/2016 9:53:11Supreme Court Silverman Direct Quote par. 3Supreme Court created a new standard of review for student speech. Under this standard, school officials may prohibit or punish student speech only if the speech would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school."

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