Bullying

I know we have been discussing topics that have to do with all sorts of media in the classroom. We have talked about the use of blogs, Facebook, cell phones, Twitter etc. In one of my other classes we are learning about how students use all of these kinds of media to bully one another. Kids sending threatening texts, posting something mean or rude about another on Facebook, or Twitter accounts made that are purely just to make fun of someone. The fact is, that the majority of this is actually happening IN SCHOOL, a lot of these events don't even occur outside of school. So what can we do about it? I personally think that these types of media are fine to use freely in and out of school. I use my cell phone all the time to text and don't think that students should be held in different standards. But when it crosses the line, I think that something surely needs to be done. There are countless stories about kids being bullied this way and it ends up being a serious case where someone ends up hurt. I read the other day on line about a girl name Louise who was receiving threatening texts from girls at her school. When she went to her teachers with the issue they wrote it off and told her that's just how girls behaved. Two weeks later Louise was foudn being beaten up by one of the girls by her bus stop. It had gotten to the point where Louise was unconscious on the ground with the other girl on top of her kicking her face. Louise was in a coma for over a month before she recovered. The point I'm trying to make is that although these are helpful tools to all of us, we need to be aware of the dangers that they provide as well.