The Cyber Bullying-Zone by Harrison Unstead

Nearly all but one teacher didn’t care about bullying at scotch college, a subject rarely spoken about but was like a bacteria in an open cut wound. It would surface every so often but attract no attention to the arrogant teachers, all but one teacher who would later inspire others to put their foot down to this sick infection that deteriorated the school.

First we need to understand what is bullying?
Peter Unstead said “Bullying is when someone uses superior strength or influence to intimidate some-one typically to force them to do something”
What peter Unstad just said hits the nail on the head for 77 percent of students from all around the world that have admitted to being a victim of one or multiple types of bullying.
People generally think that the biggest type of bullying is physical but with recent studies this was proven false.

When we made a survey for the students of Western Australia, Perth, Scotch College we were surprised to see that physical bullying has almost been quadrupled by Cyber-Bullying.
As said by Isaac Lo “It’s a bad thing, but you can easily escape it”. But when we asked him what were the ways of escaping cyberbullying, he had no reply. That's exactly what we got from ⅗ of the survey from students… a empty box for ways to stop Cyber-Bullying.

But there are certain ways to help stop / decrease the amount of bullying a student receives, either that being decreased time on the internet or dealing with the problem head on, that being either getting an adult or teacher involved with the accused person who is bullying the victim.

Teachers initially learned about Cyber-Bullying when students showed signs of anorexia to going online. After growing more intrigued, the teachers surveyed 400, and recognized that 35-40 percent had started to show anorexia towards going online with a 3 percent showing depression from online bullying.
"Something that is hard to catch when you were born in a no-internet life” said Freda Phillips.

And that’s exactly what the kids expect from the older generation to say, people think that just because the older generation aren't as good as themselves that they can get away with what they are doing.

It’s know as a clear fact that the year 2000 generation of children will be better at learning technology than others but that doesn't mean that the older generation are out of the game, we just have to spare some time giving them a chance to either learn this new type of evolving technology or let them explore it themselves.

It’s worrisome, experts say. Cyber Bullying can take place anywhere if the assailant has an internet compatible device as well the internet itself. It’s the fear that the assailant can inflict upon the reader without laying a finger on them that experts are worried about.
Alex Malarkey said “It can affect any age group but still acts like real bullying were the victim is afraid to seek help”.
“Is it because they're afraid? or don’t think we can help?”
was the response ticked by ½ parents that took a anti-bully survey.

This fact scares parents that they can't help their own child or even know if it’s happening to their child because the effect still work like normal bullying where the child will think that if they don't tell anyone that the problem will just blow over, but the sad reality is that the problem will not blow over but will potentially stay with the victim for a long time. Things like derogatory names, cyber bullying, shaming towards the person etc.

The affected students of Scotch College have been taught what to do if they’re cyberly attacked and how to deal with it. And that’s exactly the kind of adaptive behaviour that’s necessary, experts say.
the students showed signs of less anorexia and depression after they had been taught to do certain tasks to stop cyberbullying, some students even faced the person who were bullying them in a nice chat face to face asking questions like “Why were you doing this?” etc.

If you're scared of going online because of these reasons it’s important that you tell someone, who and what is happening to you online, realize that's it’s ok to disconnect, If you don’t tell anyone what is happening to you in the real world or even the cyber world, you need to let your feelings out to someone as well if you're being bullied because if you don't’ you can become quite dangerous

And if this doesn’t work we can always go back to and revisit the olden days of no internet and write letters to one another than texting on social media.