ARE PHONES KEEPING BULLYING ALIVE IN SCHOOLS?

Are SmartPhone's keeping bullying alive?

This is the opinion of leading American experts in MIT. Schoolyard bullying has been seriously reduced since 1999. Sadly the bullies many of whom are cowards have taken to cyberbullying instead. Online bullying is the only form of bullying growing. This is hardly what was intended for smartphones when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world in 2007. Book a Speaker for your School

34% of kids will experience cyberbullying as kids
Girls are twice as likely to be the victims of cyberbullying.
Victims of cyberbullying have a higher risk of depression, even compared to victims of traditional bullying face to face.
Children are 7 times more likely to be cyberbullied by friends than by strangers.
Children who are bullied are 9 times more likely to be the victim of identity fraud as well.
Cyberbullies do not actually use the internet to find victims, but they use digital technology to bully people who they are already bullying at school.
Digital technology is not the problem by itself but makes an existing problem far worst. If the issue can be resolved in school, then it will not happen at home

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The reasons reported by students for being bullying are

Looks (27%)
Race (10%)
Ethnicity (7%)
Gender (7%),
Disability (4%),
Religion (4%)
Sexual orientation (3%)

Another trend that continually plays itself out is that those who are bullied typically go on to bully more people. Girls are more likely to report that they are being cyberbullied. Most commonly, cyberbullying occurs when the other person is seen as different in some way. The cultural context of the particular school may have an influence on whether or not the child is bullied. Online Speaker for Kids in Schools UK

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There are 4 significant kinds of harassing. These are social media portals, provocation, flaring and rejection. Online life harassing is all types of tormenting that happens via web-based networking media stages, for example, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or Twitter. Although most kids are using Snapchat as their preferred weapon of choice on this matter. Parents need not worry too much about Twitter.

We think that Parents should feel free to check their kids Phone to make sure that their kids are behaving themselves online.

Bullying is the online repetition of constant negative threats that can occur via different means. This has a very impactful way of demeaning the bullied kids into a nervous wreck. Parental Control Option from £/€30

Flaming is the disgracing and embarrassment of specific people, so others can see, either on the web or disconnected. Also, avoidance is the place the individual is disregarded or not welcome to get-togethers. The unfortunate casualty would then be able to be ridiculed among the gathering without the injured individual knowing. Flaring is the most embarrassing and can remain with the youngster or immature the longest, contingent upon to what extent it keeps going. Be that as it may, avoidance can be the hardest to pick up proof of and investigate, as it is almost difficult to demonstrate. For instance, someone may be erased from a companions list or not welcome to an occasion, which isn't actually an offence in the interest of the kid or understudy.

On a more positive note, cyberbullying is increasing, bullying itself is dropping as Schools concentrate on it. Schoolyard brutality is not as common as in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s. Many think that without smartphones bullying would be a thing of the past.

Figures show that bullying declined through 2014, but the rise of the smartphones has bought a serious new dimension to the issue.

An investigation led by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education found a 22% decrease in school bullying in Massachusetts somewhere in the range of 2003 and 2011. Book a Teenager School Talks

Cyberbullying has taken its place. These messages are encrypted and private, for example, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Snapchat. So there is no record except if you take the gadget from your youngster and take a look at the messages, with a screen capture. This is not easily done and bullied teenagers are not keen to share their phone, with the damage already done.