I agree. What constitutes “bullying”? Mere criticism?
If it’s going to be so “tricky” to write such a law, then don’t. Not every problem needs a government solution.
Politicians would love such a law. Any criticism at all would be “bullying.”
Everyone “knows” what bullying is, just like loitering and jostling. Problem is that it’s impossible to write a law that defines them clearly and unambiguously.
Liberals love to write laws as long as the laws restrict freedom.
When the eighth grader here told us it would be so bad like death ifvface book wasn’t available along wth a good phone, the kind everyone at school had even and especially the poor ones on the breakfast program, the answer was No
In middle school, kids need to learn how to approach other people. To verbalized ideas. To get others’ immediate reaction in the form of facial expression. They need supportif friends criticism as well as defense
And they need at that time to be out and about not sitting, getting fat and typing conversations
So no phone just the ‘loser phone’ for contacting us
This did not sit well
We said yes you can have all this stuff later
Facebook is not for middle schoolers nor is surfing the net
And I wanted to know very well who was coming and going around here and what was being talked about
My friends said I could spy on the kids looking at the search history
Not only was there not enough time in the day for that, and no I am mot spying on my kids, if I’m strong enough to do that I’m strong enough to just say no, but it would be after tfe fact and what do I do with the info? Take away Facebook? I thought is save the trouble and do it then
Not great but they could see the reason so they knew it wasn’t punishment or torture for the sake of power
Then there was the slew of stories - girls getting into problems for se ting, the bullying, the lack of social skills
We pulled them out of that system and into a private school the next year where parents were paying multi thousands for education to not fool around and had no money for all the electronics and there was no government money for all of it
End of issue. But it’s a big issue
As long as people continue to think that somehow Facebook is ok for middle schoolers
Don’t they have schoolwork to do?
Now there’s every electronic gadget known, here.
And they are all treated as what they are - tools
People vote for Obama. They let their kids play with dangerous things
Lots of stupidity out there. I’m not joining
Freedom of speech needs to be treated with respect not pulled in because parents are senseless
I’d argue cyber bullying laws not only violate the 1st amendment, they provide a backdoor to completely circumvent it.
Call a politician a moron on a forum and they would file a butt hurt report in a minute claiming you were bullying them.