What are some examples of cyberbullying and electronic harassment that you have seen?
In one situation, a student here in Seattle was receiving mean and nasty messages over the telephone, which doesn’t sound too high-tech. But what the perpetrators had done was use the TTY system for the hearing-impaired, and the operator had to repeat the messages. In another example, a young female teacher’s head was Photoshopped onto a nude body. The students were directed to the site by word-of-mouth and by messages on their own social networking sites. Another example is the blog site that says, “So-and-so’s a bitch.” And other kids all add comments. And by that time the target has seen it, she doesn’t know who posted what and doesn’t know who her friends are because the kids are using fictitious names, and she’s devastated. This kind of thing happens mainly to middle school kids but to older kids, too. There’s a wide range. It could be anything from receiving an “I hate you” text message to electronically sent pornography to a message directing the target to look at a particular b
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