Online bullying is becoming a bigger problem by the day, and it is high time schools stop handballing the problem to parents and start getting more involved:
One in seven children admit to having bullied someone online – often to try to fit in, a poll reveals.
Others claim they turned to bullying to avoid becoming a target of abuse themselves.
The charity Action For Children, which commissioned the survey, said many children bully others because of problems in their own lives.
The poll, published to mark Safer Internet Day today, found 15 per cent of 2,000 youngsters aged eight to 17 questioned had bullied someone online.
Of these, 59 per cent did so to fit in with a particular social group and 43 per cent wanted to prevent themselves being bullied.
Some 28 per cent admitted becoming a bully due to peer pressure and 12 per cent said they had done it because they were unhappy.
The survey also found that nearly half of the youngsters questioned admitted they had kept silent after seeing or reading something online that made them feel uncomfortable, rather than telling someone.
Around one in five said they had kept quiet because they were scared of what a bully might do to them, while nearly half said they were not worried enough to let someone know what they had seen and 17 per cent said they were worried they would get into trouble if they told.
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September 28, 2012Even dropping out of school isn’t an insurance policy against being bullied:
A 16-year-old San Diego cheerleader who was repeatedly bullied by her peers says the taunting continued even after she dropped out, ABC News reports.
Katie Uffens left Westview High School earlier this year and enrolled in a home-school charter program after she was told about the existence of a group called the “KKK” — short for the “Kill Katie Klub.”
Mother Giselle Uffens says, however, that there was no escaping the alleged bullies, who proceeded to harass Katie online via social media after she left Westview.
KGTV reports Ms. Uffens collected defamatory photos and comments the bullies made on Facebook and Twitter, and also recorded dozens of allegedly threatening phone calls made to their house, which she turned over to police.
Earlier this month, two teenage boys were arrested at Westview and questioned in connection with the incident. One of them, Nick Aguirre, told KGTV that while he admitted to playing a role in bullying Katie last year, he is actually the victim in this situation, having been taken out of school publicly in handcuffs.
Aguirre said the “Kill Katie Klub” was just a joke he made in passing to a friend, and that he had not talked to her since.
“Basically, what I said to one of my friends was ‘Kill Katie Klub,'” Aguirre told KGTV. “It was a one-liner thing. We never had any intentions to hurt anybody.”
He also denied having any involvement with the threatening phone calls, despite Giselle Uffens’ claims to the contrary.
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