Cyberbullying and the Schools
By Linzey Payne
10 Facts
- 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time.
- Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.
- 1 in 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying.
- 90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.
- 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.
- Over 67% of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying.
- Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.
- 17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester.
- 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.
- 1 in 7 Students is either a bully or a victim of bullying.
Three things you can do to protect yourself from cyberbullying
Keep your social media accounts private.
Don't give out your personal information.
Delete your account.
Three ways to respond on to cyberbullying
- Block the person.
- Report the person.
- Could delete your account.
3 Helpful websites
Consequences of Cyberbulling with the law and schools
You can be suspended or expelled from school. Also you could be kicked off the sport team you are on. You could go to jail and people can sue you.
Rachael Neblett
Rachael was so happy with how her life was. But then she started getting threatening e-mails from someone through her myspace account. She didn't tell her parents even when the e-mails continued. She finally told her sister and she told their parents. They knew it was someone from the school because they knew what classes she took and knew where she lived by following her bus home. They couldn't find out who it was. One day they e-mailed her and said " I wont put you in the hospital, I will put you in the morgue." After that she took her own life and no one was found guilty.