Sadly, not all children have parents who are actively involved. Some are in a position where they feel that their parents would do nothing to help even if they were to talk about the situation, and believe that they have nowhere to go, no one to advocate for them.
Even with caring parents, if a child does not have unsupervised access to the internet, what about their phone? Many parents give a phone to their children to keep track of them—how hard is it for bullies to send them hateful text messages?
I think it is the wrong message to allow bullies unfettered access to their victims, while telling the victims and their families that they have no legal recourse and it is up to them to stop the bullying... if they can. Some families have had to move to remove their children from bullying situations.
Laws on bullying are long overdue, IMHO.
I have to agree with you.
Thing is, that parents are not getting their spoiled bullying brats into shape and since no one is taking responsibility, a new law has to be created to deal effectively with the issue.
Blame the enabling parents when things like this happen.
"Laws on bullying are long overdue, IMHO."And in my honest opinion there are already way too many laws on the books. I believe we need to start eliminating many of these laws.