by Stephen Wall, Press-Enterprise
Not long ago, kids did most of their name calling on the playground and in the cafeteria. Today, online attacks have become their preferred method of delivering insults. “They’re more comfortable trashing each other in the privacy of their home rather than doing it in the lunch yard,” said Erika Krause, a teacher and technology coordinator at Jurupa Middle School. Jurupa Unified and other Inland school districts are now responding to the growing problem by teaching the proper way to use social media. “It’s kind of a losing battle with some of them,” Krause said. “We’re trying to stay ahead of the curve as far as learning from them what they’re doing.” The district offered digital training lessons after most of its 19,000 students received laptop-like Chromebooks this year.
http://www.pe.com/2017/04/23/inland-schools-battle-online-bullying-social-media-insults/
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