KINGS RESPONSE AND REFLECTION TO BULLYING
Bullying is a serious problem that we have been faceting for years now. Schools all over the world are not recognizing all the damage being done to students and their educations. Bullying has been a problem for years and the only safe place students could escape everything is home. Since the evolution of technology, bullies have used technology and social media platforms to their advantage. Everyday new students are getting bullied, hurting themselves, and sometimes committing suicide. It’s important that schools stop this cycle because Childrens educations are decreasing at a very fast steady rate.
king’s junior high has done a great job in trying to reduce bullying. Kings junior high has a class called digital citizenship. This class informs the school’s students about the dangers and how to be safe online. The class goes through how to know what an online scam is and how to prevent hackers from breaking into your personal information. The class has the students write blogs on the information you had learned throughout the class. This class raises awareness on school bullying and cyberbullying. The class shows how we can prevent doing this to others and how to stop bullying if we see it.
However, Kings junior high students aren’t the only students on campus learning about online safety. Elementary students actively have teachers and other online safety executives come in and talk about online safety. Kings has programs in high school where the school has police officers come in and talk about examples of digital citizenship and people’s identities being stolen. Kings has had a guest speaker talk during a chapel about some of the students accounts and what information he could gather just from their profiles. He showed some of the student’s accounts and pointed out what is dangerous to have on the internet.
At a young age as low as kindergarten, kings have been teaching children effects on what you keep on the internet stays there forever. Kings teachers 4th and 5th graders how to use digital sites and promotes good digital citizenship. Teachers let students know that there will be consequences of cyber bulling on the devices they have been granted at school. Kings schools does however want to expand this program to lower ages so that they can be trained to have good digital citizenship.
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Mr. Harcrow
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