How Is It Cyberbullying When Students Are Exposing Teacher Abuses?
from the trying-to-understand... dept
Over in the Czech Republic, the education ministry has drawn up "guidelines" for how schools can deal with "cyberbullies" and just like other recent stories, it's the teachers who are afraid of being bullied more than other students. But, as you read the details, it sounds that what the teachers define as "cyberbullying" is actually something more like "students exposing teacher abuses." We've seen this before. A school district in the US punished students for recording a teacher's outburst, and in another case, a student was suspended for filming the principal smoking on school grounds -- against regulations. In this case, the rules against cyberbullying came after students uploaded a video of a teacher hitting a kid. It's difficult to see how that's cyberbullying at all. It sounds like the students were effectively exposing a teacher abusing his position. Yet, the response, again, is to figure out a way to blame the kids and make it more difficult for them to expose teachers acting badly.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I think we should form Cyber-Bullies Anonymous (CBA)
"Hello, my name is joe shmoe and I'm.... a Cyber-Bully..."
"Hello Joe."
"it all started when my teacher hit me...."
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It's possible
But filming or recording abuses shouldn't be punished.
BUT but(?) Isn't this just one more instance of the surveillance society, where everything we do/say is subject to filming/recording and we have no privacy? I'm not a fan of Total Information Awareness regardless of who is doing the "Awaring."
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Now a days a 'story' from a student can kill a teacher's career. Just as easily as an abusive teacher and dominate and threaten the students. Case in point: I teacher friend of mine started work a new school on the first day two female student came up to and said they would do as they say or they would tell their parents/principle that he had touch them inappropriately - he was smart and went to the office tried to resolve the issue (when the school refused to take any action to protect him he quite by the end of the first day).
Digital recording of video is now easy to do and easy to store. Just need a good code of conduct for viewing the recordings.
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You may say, the bullies will also post evidence of their acting, but still, there is no real punishment for grad school kids.
As to teachers - it can be very misleading to record things ripped out from the context, that is one of the most used manipulation technique.
I believe this law is not to hide unlawful teacher´s behavior...
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