Madera High School Research Paper

Unless society takes affirmative action on bullying and harassment thousands of silent victims will continue to suffer. Bullying and harassment among teens around the world is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. In the U.S. teens are having trouble finding a reason to go to school if they are constantly being bullied. All teens ranging from 13 to 19 years of age in danger of being targeted by bullies and harassers. At Madera High School, on a scale from 1 to 10 on how bad bullying is at the school, it is about a 6. The issue of bullying at Madera High School is not too good, but not too bad. Madera High has a zero tolerance on bullying on and off of school grounds if it affects on of it’s students. The school’s policy does not allow any …show more content…
In the current generation, electronics are practically everywhere and it is so simple to be attacked or attack another person. The U.S. definition of cyberbullying is the use of informational technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. Cyber harassment is when is when someone posts rumors and gossips about a person to bring hatred to others mind’s. In his article, What is Cyber Harassment, R. Stamm gives the intentions of the cyber harasser when he states, “A stalker or harasser often will post comments to the victim that are intended to cause distress and will try to incite others to do the same”. This means that cyber harassers are directly attacking someone to make the victim feel isolated and rejected. There are six different types of cyber harassment. All of these types of harassment attack a person and try to make them feel …show more content…
The cyber harassment exclusion is the act of intentionally singling a person out of a group online, and then subsequently sending malicious comments and harassing them. When someone comments or teases the victim because they are not part of the group, that is exclusion. Reminder that this is all online, and when the bullies say that it is the victim’s fault for not being good enough for the group or something of that manner, it is called victim blaming. Victim blaming, another type of cyber harassment, the victim is taunted, shamed, or called heinous names. The name speaks for itself, the victim is blamed for the reason why they are being harassed, so it is the victim’s fault that they are bullied. This type of cyber harassment is probably one of the more common types nowadays. A lot of the types of cyber harassment can go together, exclusion and victim blaming are easy to pair with each other. Victims often get blamed by the bullies, it is an excuse for them to do these