School Bullying Council

You can’t help what you don’t know. Increase communication with students and increase school and student safety with the CyberBully Hotline. Meet students where they are and communicate with them on their terms-texting on their cell phones. The CyberBully Hotline is so much more than a phone number. It’s a comprehensive, anti-bullying program consisting of an anonymous, two-way reporting system that students can call or text, school-level and student-level reinforcement materials, and a bully pr

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Whether it is Cyber, Mental, Physical or emotional, It hurts, Oh so much. And it NEEDS to stop. These are just some of the stories and points I have seen. Bullying is pathetic, It sickens me. Critism is acceptable, aslong as it isn’t Mean, or racist or horrible… ~ Jacki Brown PS The signs read. And the signs say from the start. ~Bullying. ~Whether it’s cyber or not, Doesn’t matter… ~It hurts people… ~ But there can be many sides to a story… ~Just Remember to speak out against it… ~ Wit

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Poll finds social networks the place where Australian kids are most likely to be bullied online. Picture: Getty Images
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AUSTRALIA rates number one in the world for bullying on social networks like Facebook, according to a global poll.

While Australia ranked fifth for cyber-bullying overall, nine out of ten parents said when the harassment occurred it was on these types of sites – much higher than the global average of six in 10.

The Ipsos Social Research Institute survey of 24 countries ranked Australia worse for bullying than all of the European countries, along with the US, Britain and China.

The four countries ranking higher than us, in order, were India, Indonesia, Sweden and Canada.

The research comes just a week after Victorian schoolgirl Sheniz Erkan took her own life after being tormented by Facebook bullies.

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Ispsos director Ryan Williams said the goal was to find out how prevalent cyber-bullying was and to find out where it was taking place.

“According to parents, Australian children were less likely to experience bullying in an online chat room, via email, or on their mobile phone, compared to global averages – but were more likely than any other nation to experience bullying via social networking sites, such as Facebook,” Mr Williams said.

Australia ranked 15th for mobile devices, 22nd for online chat, 17th for emails, 20th for instant messages, 21st for general websites and 18th for other forms of technology.

No Australian parent reported bullying was a persistent issue with their children.

Kids Helpline manager of strategy and research John Dalgleish said the rise of cyber bullying was a massive concern as it took it harassment from the playground directly into victim’s bedrooms.

Mr Dalgleish said the rise of social networking sites meant bullying was no longer limited to the classroom and teenagers faced further exposure to harassment thanks to the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook.

“Cyber bullying has a profound impact as it widens the audience (from school) and means it can be seen by anyone,” he said.

“It can be used as an extension of face-to-face bullying and takes it from the classroom and into a child’s own bedroom undermining their sense of safety and security.”

KidsHelpline, which offers hundreds of counselling services to bullying victims a year, urged young people affected by the harassment to come forward and speak out.

Mr Dalgleish said victims should tell a trusted adult or parent who can take action on their behalf, and in extreme cases take it to the police.

He added previous studies on the long-term effects of bullying had showed positive outcomes and an end to the behaviour after victims had told someone about it.

“The first thing victims need to know is it’s not their fault,” he said.

“Action can be taken and it can be stopped.”

Bullying can result in chronic anxiety, depression, fear, anxiety, withdrawal from school and in the worst cases, self-harm.

Parents are urged to monitor their children’s social networking use and speak to them about appropriate behaviour on the internet.

Anyone experiencing bullying or harassment is urged to visit KidsHelpline.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/anti-social-network-australia-the-facebook-bullying-capital/story-e6frfro0-1226246496953

Online spats between school children are spiralling out of control, leading to hate messages, violence and death threats. Picture: The Daily Telegraph
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ONLINE spats between school children are spiralling out of control, leading to hate messages, violence and even death threats.

Experts say 10 per cent of all children now claim to have been cyber-bullied, The Daily Telegraph reported.

The enraged father of one teenage schoolgirl became so incensed by comments he believed a boy had made about his daughter on a social networking site that he accosted him in the street and threatened to “slit his throat”.

The man approached the Year 8 boy as he walked to a bus stop on the state’s mid-north coast and pushed and threatened him before boarding the bus, where he issued further death threats to the boy and other students.

In another disturbing case, a mum went to a school in western NSW and urged her Year 10 daughter to assault another girl after an exchange on a social networking site.

Both girls were suspended, police were called and the mum was banned from entering the school under the Inclosed Lands Act.

In the Tuggerah Lakes area on the NSW central coast, comments on a social networking site led to a Year 8 female being assaulted by another Year 8 girl.

One of the students, who sustained swelling to her forehead and complained of feeling dizzy and nauseous, was taken to hospital. The other girl injured her hand.

Schools increasingly are asking police to investigate serious student online bullying and have shored up cyber safety programs in a bid to head off more trouble.

The NSW Department of Education and Communities has enlisted international expert Professor Donna Cross to help advise students and families about online behaviour.

Professor Cross, from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, specialises in preventing and responding to aggression. She said about 10 per cent of children now reported being cyber-bullied.

Children who cyber-bullied also were 18 times more likely to bully others in the real world, Professor Cross said.

She said bullies often had higher levels of depression than the victims: “They’re also more likely to be engaging in problem behaviour – unsafe sexual behaviours, smoking, using drugs, graffiti, stealing and truanting.”

Bullying peaks in children at about Year 5 and again at about Year 7 or Year 8.

The first peak coincides with children discovering the power of the peer group and creating their own social pecking order. The second peak occurs when children move from primary school to secondary school.

Researchers have found cyber-bullied kids suffer poor academic achievement, anxiety, depression, poorer physical health, higher school absenteeism, increased loneliness and low self-esteem.

The Department of Education said Facebook could not be accessed on school computers. Its Digital Citizenship website, which deals with bullying and other issues, has received thousands of hits from all over the world. 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/cyber-bullying-spiralling-out-of-control-in-nsw-schools/story-e6frfro0-1226233680802

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Many people may be bullies and not even know it. This program challenges students to think about their own behavior with a series of seven questions about physical, verbal, and exclusionary bullying. Questions include: Have you ever punched, shoved, or hit another boy or girl? Do you ever make fun of or tease other students or call them mean names? Do you often make fun of others because they are “different” from you or your friends? Have you purposely not invited someone to han

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Glenn Olson shares his 25+ years of teaching these programs with you, the instructor. In this segment he explains the versatility of the safetyNETkids program and covers setting the mood and tone for the class. The Instructor’s guide steps you through teaching the Safety Program (abduction and abuse prevention), Bully Program (how to avoid and deal with bullies and being bullied), Confidence Program (including posture, eye contact and standing tall) and Internet Safety (Cyber Bullying, Online in

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Bullying – Cyber Bullying, school bullying, etc. This video was necessary after yesterday’s news article about a 3rd grader bringing a gun to school to protect himself from a bully. 3rd Grader Brings Gun to School: goo.gl CyberBullying Article: goo.gl TUMBLR About Me/Equipment: wilsontech1.tumblr.com DAILY iPHONE VLOG Channel: youtube.com LIKE me on Facebook: facebook.com FOLLOW me on Twitter: twitter.com AUDIO Podcast: lifepluggedin.com OUTRO performed by Charlie Puth Music: Bas

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The Australia Communications and Media Authority has launched an out of home campaign – a first for the government body – as it looks to raise awareness about digital reputation, sexting, geolocation and cyberbullying among teenagers in Sydney. The posters contain QR codes that enable teens to directly access the cybersmart website by using their cameraphones. Creative and media were devised by Mediabrands.

ACMA is using outdoor following research from the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, which suggested that teenagers pay attention to ads on street fixtures.

“The key message is presented in a strong bold typeface, in a tone of voice that aims to speak with the target rather than at them,’ explained ACMA chairman, Chris Chapman.

The campaign runs until June 19.

The cybersmart website hosts a video targeted at parents that helps them understand the online space in which their children exist.

June 13th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

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http://mumbrella.com.au/acma-tries-outdoor-to-reach-teens-on-cyberbullying-48922

The advent of new technologies and digital networking means bullies do not need face-to-face interaction to hurt others.

The damage cyberbullies do can be worse than in-person bullying, with rumors spreading much more quickly to a potentially wider audience.

Surveys around the world are finding that online forums are becoming hotbeds of bullying, with teens and tweens increasingly using social networking sites to engage in bullying.

In a study on cyberbullying conducted in February by Norton Canada, a staggering 66 percent of the 507 parents polled said that their child had been a victim of a cyberbully attack, while 16 percent admitted that their child was the bully.

The survey found that tweens, 8-to-12-year-olds, are the most victimized age group.

A survey conducted by the U.S. National Crime Prevention Center, found that over 40 percent of U.S. teenagers with Internet access reported being bullied online during the past year. Similar statistics were also found in the United Kingdom.

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Last year, an EU study found that, 6 percent of Internet-using teens, ages 9–16, reported having received nasty or hurtful messages online, while 3 percent reported sending such messages to others.

Chat rooms, social networking websites, e-mail, cell phones, and instant message systems are platforms used by bullies with chat rooms being the most common forum for cyberbullying, according Cyber Bully Alert, which reported that 45 to 57 percent of all bullying incidents originate in chat rooms.

Facebook and MySpace are also hotbeds for cyberbullying incidents, according to Cyber Bully Alert, saying that they will soon overtake chat rooms as the top source of cyberbullying problems worldwide, according to the site.

Worse Than Hitting

Dr. Marilyn Campbell, a child psychologist at the Queensland Institute of Technology in Australia, said that cyberbullying has become a global problem.

A study by the Institute concluded that cyberbullying could actually be more detrimental to children than face-to-face tormenting.

“We actually think that the consequences of cyberbullying could be even worse than normal schoolyard bullying, mainly because it is the power of the written word we can read over and over,” Campbell said.

A study on the effects of rejection on adults, released by the University of Michigan last March, found that the brain is not clearly able to differentiate the pain of emotional rejection from physical pain.

The pain and torment that cyberbullied kids feel can leave mental and emotional scars. Cyberbullied kids are more likely to show depressive symptoms, have suicidal thoughts, and develop psychotic symptoms in early adolescence, say researchers.

In several cases cyberbullying has lead victims to commit suicide. One of the more high profile cases was that of U.S.-teen, Megan Meier in 2006. Megan’s suicide three weeks before her 14th birthday was attributed to cyberbullying through MySpace.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/technology/cyberbullying-a-growing-worldwide-epidemic-56851.html