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Evidence of why schools should punish students for cyber-bullying ||~ Cyber bullying is not a pleasant thing to experience. Everyone can see it, questions and viscious rumors start to fly around about you. It can make your best friend that you shared every secret with pretend not to know you. The worst thing is that all you know is a big question mark for the person's identity. Source ||~ Team Member || “ || McKenna || Jersey, now let school officials have the power to discipline the students who participate in cyber-bullying. In Missouri cyber-bullying is now considered a felony. Many people however say, that the new laws won’t help if the bullies don’t take responsibility for their actions. || “ || McKenna || 1 || Stefany || r. Web. 04 Oct 2011 || Stefany || ” Willard, Nancy SIRS. Web. March 2007: 31 Oct. 2011 || Stefany || wist and Turns of Cyberbullying”Edweek. 09 Feb. 2011 Web. 31 Oct. 2011 || Stefany || n.d. Web. 4 Nov 2011. Thomas || Picture from: [], Google Images. March 25, 2012.
 * Prevention programs have helped reduce school bullying by as much as 50% || Bennett, Jessica. “From Lockers to Lockup.” Newsweek.11 Oct 2010: n.p. SIRS Issue Researcher. Web. 11 Oct 2011. || McKenna ||
 * They are harrassed for being gay, lesbian, their race, color, or weight, bisexual, transgender youth, or anything else that bullies can find to make fun of someone. || “ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McKenna ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyberbullying is no different then what it was in the “old school” times. There is less bullying nowadays. It just happens that the result is more tragic with cyber-bullying. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Cyberbullying Research center, said that one in five 11-18 year olds have been cyber-bullied, more often girls are the target/ bully. 16.6% of boys have been cyber-bullied, and 25.1% of girls have been cyber-bullied || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Godbey, Catherine. “Cyberbullying Is No LOL Matter.” Decatur Daily. 21 Aug 2011: n.p. Sirs Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Oct 2011 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McKenna ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyberbullying will sometimes lead to suicide. Some of the bullies don’t feel bad afterwards. Even though some victims who do commit suicide have a mental illness, but cyber-bullying just makes it that much worse. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Devine, Miranda. “Parents Must Go Where Evil Lurks.” Sunday Herald-Sun (Melbourne).24 Jul 2011: 79. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Oct 2011. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McKenna ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No one will know if what is written is true or false, and everyone has access to it, your best friend, your mom, your teachers, anybody, and if you are being bullied there is no safe place for you to go, you just can’t go home, because once again there is your phone, computer waiting with your Facebook, everything that relayed that bullying to you in the first place. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lundsten, Apryl. Girls’ Life Aug.-Sept. 2010: 76+Student Edition. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McKenna ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experts say that many victims feel powerless, which will lead to depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, all of those might lead to more severe cases, when the victim might run away or commit suicide. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McKenna ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Several states, including California, Arkansas, and New
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Tami Carmichaell schools are supposed to be a safe haven.They are suppose to protect and educate. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DiBlasio,Natalie. “More Cases Ending Up in Courts.” USA TODAY. 12 Sep 2011:A.3.SIRS Researcher. Web. 04 Oct 201
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Timothy and Tami Carmichael of Cleburn, Texas, are convinced that their 13-year old son Jon’s suicide in March 2010 was a result of daily bullying by peers and lack of action taken by school officials. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DiBlasio, Natalie. “More Cases of Bullying Ending Up in Courts.” USA TODAY. 12 Sep 2011:A.3. SIRS Researcher. Web. 04 Oct 2011. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stefany ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Carmichael family attorney Martin Cirkel says he has processed 60 to 70 cases about bullying in the past two years. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DiBlasio, Natalie. “More Cases of Bullying Ending Up in Courts.” USA TODAY. 12 Sep 2011:A.3.SIRS Researcher. Web. 04Oct 2011 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stefany ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phoebe Prince committed suicide in January 14, 2010 after experiencing cyberbullying through social media and text messages. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Davis, Michelle. “Schools Tackle Twists and Turns of Cyberbullying” Edweek. 9 Feb. 2011. Web. 31 Oct. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stefany ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bullying lawsuits are on the rise nationwide, says Francisco Negron, general counsel for the National School Boards Associate. There are no studies the associate knows of, he says, but “anecdoctal evidence shows obvious increase.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DiBlasio, Natalie. “More Cases of Bullying Ending Up in Court.” USA TODAY. 12 Sep 2011 :A.3.SIRS Researche
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Columbia, Tenn., two mothers each were rewarded $100,000 in lawsuit against the Wayne County schools in June. The woman said their sons were humiliated in a locker room at Waynesboro Middle School when they joined the boys’ basketball team as seventh-graders in 2008. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DiBlasio, Natalie. “More Cases of Bullying Ending Up in Courts.’ USA TODAY. 12 Sep 2011: A.3. SIRS Researcher. Web. 04 Oct. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stefany ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some cyberbullying activities occurring off-campus are causing significant emotional harm to students. When students are emotionally harmed they may present danger to themselves and to others. If school officials fail to effectively respond to these situations when they are at the “harmful speech” level, there is a risk that they will eventually respond at the “school failure”, “school violence,” or “student suicide” level. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Cyberbullying Legislation and School Policies Where are the Boundaries of the “Schoolhouse Gate“ in this new Virtual World?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Cyberbullying is occuring and growing in the online enviorment where there are no responsible adults present, so traditional bullying prevention, which is gravited toward more adult supervision,... is not going to work here,” Willard says. “It’s not going to translate.” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Davis, Michelle. “Schools Tackle Legal T
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarass, or target another person. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Cyberbullying." Teen Health. Nemours,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyberbullying is often considdered harrasment, which is illegal in many states. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some schools or other organizations might make a distinction between bullying and harassment. That's because of the legal aspects that come into play. But to the person being harassed or bullied, there's no real difference — it's painful to go through, no matter what you call it. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online bullying can be particularly damaging and upsetting because it's usually anonymous or hard to trace. People being targeted might not know what's being said about them or where the meanness is coming from. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online bullying and harassment can be easier to commit than other acts of bullying because the bully doesn't have to confront his or her target in person. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because of the role technology plays in our lives, there is often no place to hide from bullies. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes online bullying, like other kinds of bullying, can leave people at risk for serious problems. These problems can include; stress from being in a constant state of upset or fear, mood changes, energy level, sleep, and appetite. It also can make someone feel jumpy, anxious, or sad. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not just the person being bullied who gets hurt — the punishment for cyberbullies can be serious. More and more schools and after-school programs are creating systems to respond to cyberbullying. Schools may kick bullies off sports teams or suspend them from school. Some types of cyberbullying may violate school codes, break anti-discrimination or sexual harassment laws, so a bully may face serious legal trouble || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas ||