Bullying in school

• Steel Valley Football

  You guys aren't grasping what goes on with cyber bullying if you think that just blocking someone will help.
• Glory Days

  

  Steel Valley Football;788394 wrote:You guys aren't grasping what goes on with cyber bullying if you think that just blocking someone will help.

  
  gossip is gossip whether its on the internets or gets passed around in notes in class.
• Steel Valley Football

  Glory Days;788420 wrote:gossip is gossip whether its on the internets or gets passed around in notes in class.

  
  I never mentioned the definition of gossip. People were saying for kids to just block a bully from posting on their Facebook as a solution for cyberbullying.
  
  That makes me think mulva and bigdaddy don't quite grasp it, which mulva already acknowledged obviously.
• elbuckeye28

  Glory Days;788420 wrote:gossip is gossip whether its on the internets or gets passed around in notes in class.

  
  Except notes can be somewhat contained by school personnel and can't as easily reach the large number of people that the internet can.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Steel Valley this is rather simple. Spell out for me what is up because I obviously don't get it.
• Steel Valley Football

  bigdaddy2003;788486 wrote:Steel Valley this is rather simple. Spell out for me what is up because I obviously don't get it.

  
  Get what? Why simply blocking a bully won't prevent the harassment? Because kids don't simply get on the picked-on kids' FB account and post mean things. They post stuff On other sites so the whole school can see it.
  
  Think about something simple like a bully putting paste in the kid's hair in front of him or on the playground, as an example. In our day, a few other kids in the class saw that. Maybe some kids told a few other kids, etc. Today, a video of the incident can be put online where everyone in the school can see it. Then kids can post comments on it and it can be on YouTube or wherever for years. Kids can then pick on the kid by posting comments for as long as they want. I've seen it happen to friends' kid and that's a mild example compared to what I saw a 10 yr old girl go thru.
  
  No big deal you say? Maybe but maybe not. You simply don't know. That was my point. There's so much you don't know about raising a child today, about each individual situation, about the mental state of the kids today and/or parents. I just don't understand why you would post this thread with such little info. It's not just cut and dry like you think and some might say that's a jackass opinion to own.
• Mulva

  

  Steel Valley Football;788587 wrote:Today, a video of the incident can be put online where everyone in the school can see it. Then kids can post comments on it and it can be on YouTube or wherever for years. Kids can then pick on the kid by posting comments for as long as they want.

  
  Why wouldn't they just not watch the video/read the comments?
  
  Consider me still not getting it.
• Bigred1995

  

  Mulva;788611 wrote:Why wouldn't they just not watch the video/read the comments?
  
  Consider me still not getting it.

  I think the point isn't whether the "target" directly sees the bullying, they will inevitably hear about it and be effected by it!
• Steel Valley Football

  Mulva;788611 wrote:Why wouldn't they just not watch the video/read the comments?
  
  Consider me still not getting it.

  
  Who? The kid getting picked on?
  
  Seriously? A little kid who thinks his whole class might be posting things about him/her and hears the chatter of kids talking about who posted what. How can you not get that that would affect a child?
  
  A bit of advice: start "getting it" by the time you have kids. Find out what your kid is doing online and on the playground. Because when you find her dead hanging from a rope in her closet or from eating your wife's bottle of Valium, you won't find any comfort in that fact that you told her to "be tougher".
• Mulva

  

  Steel Valley Football;788621 wrote: A bit of advice: start "getting it" by the time you have kids. Find out what your kid is doing online and on the playground. Because when you find her dead hanging from a rope in her closet or from eating your wife's bottle of Valium, you won't find any comfort in that fact that you told her to "be tougher".

  
  1. Don't think me "getting it" has anything to do with whether or not children will bully my fictitious daughter. It's not like I would be the one harassing her through Youtube videos. And if I did find out what she was doing online, and it was getting bullied through Facebook, I would advise her to block the people bullying her, like I said earlier.
  2. lol'd at the phrasing of "when" I find her dead, as if it's inevitable.
  3. My wife wouldn't take Valium. She would be tough. Like my child.
  
  Thank you for the concern though.
• Steel Valley Football

  LOL - looks like you have all the bases covered then!
  
  Except for currently failing to understand why simply blocking a FB account or two is a worthless strategy.
• Glory Days

  

  Steel Valley Football;788621 wrote: Seriously? A little kid who thinks his whole class might be posting things about him/her and hears the chatter of kids talking about who posted what. How can you not get that that would affect a child?

  
  that happend before facebook and the internet.
• I Wear Pants

  Glory Days;788916 wrote:that happend before facebook and the internet.

  And it was a problem before Facebook and the internet too.
• Steel Valley Football

  Glory Days;788916 wrote:that happend before facebook and the internet.

  I Wear Pants;788923 wrote:And it was a problem before Facebook and the internet too.

  Most definitely. I never said it didn't. That was a response to mulva who said simply ignoring cyberbullying would solve the problem (i.e. just block the bully).
  
  Please keep my posts in context if you are gonna quote just parts of them.