{"id":9684,"date":"2014-09-24T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:36:51","slug":"student-perspective-on-cyber-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective on Cyber-bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mrs. Melanie Jeffirs is showing students how to prevent bullying. Photo by: Mr. Kenneth Olson<\/p><\/div>\n

At Plymouth High School, students consider the aspects of bullying.
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Students at PHS have different perspectives on bullying. Freshman Jewel Brown said the definition of bullying is \u201cthe mental or physical action of putting somebody down.\u201d Along the same lines, Senior Nadia Baca thinks of bullying as \u201cverbally, physically, and emotionally harming someone.\u201d \u00a0As an example, Baca said, \u201cWhen I say verbally and emotionally, that includes talking behind their back, spreading rumors, or calling them names.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bullying online is a form as bullying known as cyber-bullying. Freshman Yohoni Torres thinks cyber- bullying is easier for some \u201cbecause they know it’s hard for people to stop them, others because they know how to leave no trace behind, or just because they know they can hurt people really bad.\u201d Similar to Torres\u2019 perspective, Freshman Kayla Laffoon said, \u201cI think people do it for attention, to make themselves look better than everyone else, or just for something to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyber-bullying may be more common than it should be. Senior Hope Fisher said, \u201cI think it happens all the time. Even though we can’t see what is going on. Their is someone getting hurt by someone else.\u201d Sophomore Bayli Czarnecki said, \u201cCyber-bullying happens much more often than just seeing somebody and bullying them in person. As teenagers, we have way too much availability to talk to people at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students react to cyber-bullying in a variety of ways. Senior Hunter Stevens said, \u201cI usually do not get involved because some people can get really mean, but I will stick up for someone if I feel it necessary.\u201d Also similar to what \u00a0Stevens said, Freshman Hope Gandara said, \u201cI have never been bullied, but when I see others getting bullied I would stand up for them. I know that if I got bullied I would just ignore it because I don’t care what others think.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many stereotypes associated with bullying, but students have their own ideas of how bullies feel after bullying. \u00a0Freshman Samantha Payne said, \u00a0\u201cI’m sure some do [feel bad], especially those whose bullying leads to people doing drastic things like committing\/attempting suicide.\u201d Sophomore Jasmine Baird said, \u201cI don’t really know how other people feel, but I know that I would feel very bad afterwards, if I bullied someone. I assume that they do because I know for a fact that everyone knows how harmful it is to bully.\u201d Stevens also said, \u201cI am not so sure. I think some people definitely thrive off of bullying others. With our electronic generation I think it easier to give someone a piece of your mind since it does not have to be in person.\u201d Freshman Samuel Tanner said, \u201cNo I think they think that they feel cool.\u201d Fisher has also added, \u201cI don’t think so if they feel bad about what they did. Do you think they wouldn’t do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stopping bullying is difficult, especially when people aren\u2019t aware of it. Payne said, \u201cFrom what I’ve heard some people ignore it, move, or take the drastic measure to commit suicide to escape the torment.\u201d Brown said, \u201cI think some of the time the bully doesn’t even realize that what they say hurts. They don’t know that the person doesn’t know that they’re joking. I don’t think that the bully will feel bad right after but give it a few months or if they get bullied they will understand and feel bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Society may be able to reduce bullying. PHS students, however, are not optimistic about society\u2019s chances. Freshman Josie Koontz said, \u201cThere is no way to reduce bullying at the moment. Society is so sick with it’s twisted rules and making everyone think they aren’t good enough there is no way for bullying to stop. In my opinion its getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

One way that students can contribute to stopping bullying, according to Officer Ted Brown, is that \u201cstudents need to report when incidents happen. \u00a0Often they wait and report later, this makes investigations harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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