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Cyberbullying- This is when an individual or a group of people repeatedly pick on our torment another individual over the internet.

__**10 Statistics on Cyberbullying**__ "Cyber Bullying Statistics - Bullying Statistics." //Bullying Statistics - Teen Violence, Anger, Bullying, Treatment Options//. Cyberbully Research Center, 2004. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. .

1. Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyber bullying. 2. More than 1 in 3 young people have experienced [|cyberthreats] online. 3. Over 25 percent of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones or the Internet. 4. Well over half of young people do not tell their parents when cyber bullying occurs. 5. only 1 in 10 teens tells a parent if they have been a cyber bully victim. 6. About 1 in 5 teens have posted or sent sexually suggestive or nude pictures of themselves to others 7. Over 80 percent of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most popular form of technology and a common medium for cyber bullying Cyber bullying affects all races 8. Boys are more likely to be threatened by cyber bullies than girls 9. Girls are somewhat more likely than boys to be involved in cyber bullying 10. Cyber bullying victims are more likely to have low [|self esteem] and to consider suicide -- Kennedy, Helen. "Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School's 'new Girl,' Driven to Suicide by Teenage Cyber Bullies - New York Daily News." //Featured Articles From The New York Daily News//. 29 Mar. 2010. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. . - Phoebe Prince was a Pretty, 15 year old girl that was new to South Hadley High School in Massachusetts. - She recently been enrolled there after moving from Ireland. She had only been attending the high school for a short time and she was already getting picked on. -- But the bullying get worse very quickly. It escalated to extremely harsh name calling on social websites like Facebook and Formspring. - There were also threatening text sent to her, repeatedly. When Phoebe dated a popular football player on the football team, bullying became too much for the Freshman to handle. Phoebe Prince hanged herself as a result of the bullying, and still the same bullies posted vicious, hurtful things on her social networking profiles. -A girl sure to be successful girl, gone only because students and administrators chose to stand back and let what happened, happen. - Phoebe committed suicide on January 28, 2010.

//Central York School District A.U.P.// 21 Mar. 2011. PDF.
 * __Centrals A.U.P.__**

//-Central York high's school A.U.P. I think is very good. It doesnt let you do just what ever you want on their school computers.// //-It blocks many websites that could be inapropriate for students. As well, it blocks all social networking sites.// //-Although, there isnt really anything they can do about the cyberbullying that goes on at home, not at school. Which is where almost all of this bullying goes on.// //- It also makes making a profit over the internet impossible.//

//-Some of the point that I feel should be left in the AUP are, the filtering that is used when a internet search is made.// //-This makes sure nothing that is searched for is inapropraite and therefore keeps kids out of trouble and out of the dangers of the internet.//

//My AUP- Filter the internet use. Making sure the student have some freedom to find the useful information that they need.// //-But also making the internet hits sercure enough that inapropriate things with be found. -// //Punishment should be distributed to student that have hacked or intentionally searched for things that they aren't supposed to be.//

//- Some punishment that should be distributed depends on the rule broken.// //-If the misdemeanor is small then a detention. But if more serious rule is broken then more serious punishment should take place.// //-Such as if the website was hacked, then suspention would be appropriate.//

//Suggestion 1- Making the student server accessible from home, this way we could finish our work for homework.// //Suggestion 2- When a student brakes the rule of the A.U.P. more than once, take away computer privileges.// //Suggestion 3- Create a stronger fire wall. I've heard of student that could hack the Central website and were able to change everything.//

//__**How can school officials make student aware?**__// //"How Parents, Teachers, and Kids Can Take Action to Prevent Bullying."// American Psychological Association (APA)//. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. //

//- Teachers and Principals should talk to students about bullying.// //-They should stress the fact that telling is not tattling.// //-Schools should make an effort too bring the student together, that was an individual student doesn't feel isolated.// //-Counselors should be open to talk to kids about bullying. And a student should not have to go counselor, the counselor should come to them.//

//Tamanini, Kara. "How Do We Stop Bullying in Schools? | Psych Central."// Psych Central - Trusted Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, ADHD and Psychology Information. //2009. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. .//

//-Experts say that school wide anti bullying programs are the most affective. This includes all students principals, staff and parents.// //-Also researchers say that bullying programs have to be an ongoing thing.// //-Assembles that occure rarely are pretty much inaffective. Also on survey's, it is best if you ask the students not to write their names.// //-studies show student will give more honest answers when they are unknown.// //-There are many other different strategies that schools can use as an anti bullying program.// //--=---// //__**How Can School Officials Stop Cyberbullying?**__// //Tamanini, Kara. "How Do We Stop Bullying in Schools? | Psych Central."// Psych Central - Trusted Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, ADHD and Psychology Information. //2009. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. .//

//- Making kids aware of the problem of cyberbullying and bullying is the best way to get them to stop.// //- Normally when students bully each other they really don't know the harm and stress they're putting on the kid thats getting bullied.// //- When students see really how much they're troubling the kid, they're more likely to stop.//

//**__Legal issues__**// BULLIED//. Perf. Jamie Nabozny. Teaching Tolerance, 2010. DVD.//

//- In a recent move that we watched in class, school principals were included in a major legal problem.// //- A student took school officials to court.// //- This student won the court trial and was awarded almost a million dollars from the school.// //- The teachers and principals were brought to court for neglecting to help the bullied Jamie.//

//__**Some Measures That School Officials Can Take**__//

//Tamanini, Kara. "How Do We Stop Bullying in Schools? | Psych Central."// Psych Central - Trusted Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, ADHD and Psychology Information. //2009. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. .//

//Perry. "Stop Cyberbullying." Web. 29 Sept. 2011. .//

//- Some measures that school officials can take to prevent cyberbullying is to set up anti bullying programs throughout the school.// //- Most school will have some type of code that must be signed by a student to use the school computers.// //- If the student bullies another on the school computer, that is braking the code and can result in punishment.// //- School officials can create settings on the computer to make is as safe as possible.// //- Classes can also be built into the schedule that teaches kids the right and wrong ways to behave on the internet.//

//**__What actions school officials should take is they suspect cyberbullying__**//

//cher World. "Teacher World » How Should Schools Respond to Cyberbullying?"//Teaching Education | Get a Teaching Degree and Become a Teacher//. 20 July 2011. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. .

- Officials first need to figure out what degree cyberbullying it is. - You should survey student. This will let you know how much they have been exposed to cyberbullying. - From the information received from the surveys create a bullying program. - They should get everyone along with parents and staff included in the bully meeting/program