by Dave Thompson, WSLS
There are teenagers at E.C.Glass High School who eat lunch in the bathroom. The revelation gets looks of disbelief when Penelope Doss, the school’s resource officer, talks with students about bullying. Doss estimates cyberbullying affects about one in 10 students at the school. The estimate may be low, she said, but the impact on victims can be tremendous. “They can’t get through the school day without checking their phone to see if there’s another text,” she said. “They’re distracted, they can’t sleep and they’re sad. Their grades will fall … It’s never easy for a kid to hear, ‘You’re ugly,’ or ‘Everybody hates you,’ or ‘You should just go kill yourself.’” Text messages, along with Facebook, Twitter, online gaming and other websites, are popular forums for social interaction, but each has the potential to become a venue for the type of electronic aggression known as cyberbullying.
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/may/05/cyberbullying-impacts-many-half-area-teens-ar-1892627/
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