Cyberbullying: Article Analysis

Have you ever wondered if your child has been bullied at school? Or have you maybe considered online? In the article ¨At some schools, ´Big Brother´ is watching¨ by Kelly Wallace, she agrees with the idea of allowing schools to monitor what students look up and what they post online to prevent cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is when someone is bullying another person online like posting mean things or commenting harshful thing on social media. In 2013, Glendale school district in Los Angeles decided to pay a tech firm to see what students are posting online (Wallace). I would have to agree with Wallace about this idea because it can prevent suicide and cyberbullying. If schools monitor what students post it could prevent suicide. ¨The school district went with the firm Geo Listening after a pilot program with the company last spring helped a student who was talking on social media about ´ending his life,´ company CEO Chris Frydrych told CNN´s Michael Martinez in September. ´We were able to save his life,´ said Richard Sheehan¨ (Wallace). The school the boy
David Jones, President of Safe Outlook Corporation says ¨You can identify a student, and you can jump into their activity logs and see exactly what they've typed, exactly where they've gone, exactly what they've done, and it gives you some history that you can go back to that childe and use some disciplinary action,¨ (Wallace). If more schools allow this rule, imagine just how many students would get into trouble because they might be cyber bullying another student or they could be looking at inappropriate content such as pornography and drugs. Jones also said ¨You can bring in the parent and say ´Hey, look, this is what you child´s doing. You need to talk to them about it.´ ¨ (Wallace). If parents get involved with what their child is doing online, cyberbullying and other actions that are inappropriate would be