They found that although most online pranks deride other students, a reported 26 percent of teachers and principals were being targeted back in 2006.
The article also lists a few examples of some recent of teacher 'cyber-bullying,' my favourite, although in no way do I condone this kind of behaviour, has got to be the parent filming his kid's teacher's bum during a class exercise and then posting it on the t'internet with a mighty Van Halen soundtrack, trully ass-mazing? I think not.
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- mattbrawn
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It's all because people carry their emotional baggage with them even online. There needs to be a place where you could check that for a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOcWZOkcwY and teach them a better way like "Why Hate, Just Create!" http://www.cafepress.com/hatecreate
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I'm obviously all for protecting free speech, but slander is slander. Web 2.0 is creating all sorts of new situations, and new solutions will have to be created...dunno about writing in new laws for this particular problem, however.
Sticks and stones and all that.
Most of the things mentioned in the article should only have gotten rolled eyes and the like - however, posting a teacher's contact information on random sites is serious stuff.What are judges for, if not to judge individual cases?
And doesn't it just boil down to kids being jackasses, like they've always been?
