Satire: Should Parents Be Criminally Liable for Kids' Cyber Bullying?

    The question being brought up lately is should parents be criminally liable for kids’ cyber bullying? Recently two girls in Florida 14 and 12, have been arrested on cyber bullying charges. They had been harassing 12 year old Rebecca so bad that last month she leapt to her death from a tower in an abandoned concrete plant. Should their parents be liable for their actions? of course they should  even if their kids are old enough to know what they are doing why punish them when we can blame it on the parents. The 14 year old posted on her Facebook “ Yes IK I bullied REBECCA nd she killed herself but IDGAF” of course the parents should be responsible for their children's stupid choices. Parents can be great and still have bad kids who do bad things but shouldn't we just punish the parents.

Editorial Cartoon Analysis

                       This cartoon shows a bigger dog representing the bully and a little dog representing the victim. A lot of the time cyber bullies pick on easy targets someone they know they can overpower. Bullying over the computer makes them feel even more big and powerful; not having a face to face confrontation and just using their words online is easy.

Should a Football Team be Suspended Over Cyber Bullying?

Should a football team be suspended over cyber bullying? Well a football team and Utah had that happen to them; on September 20 their coach Matt Labrum asked for their jerseys back. A student at the school was being harassed on Ask.fm and believed that it was players on the football team. The website where users can ask each other questions anonymously has been linked to at least five suicides globally. They couldn't identify who the bullies were but the coaches met with the student and apologized. The coach is giving the team a chance to be able to join the team again by doing community service and character building activities. Now after learning about this I thought it was a great that the coach had the courage to do that because I know people would get mad about this. I think a lot of schools would have shrugged it off because they were football players and that's pretty important at most high schools. Too many people get away with cyber bullying because the bully might be well liked or the school might simply say its on the internet so they can't do anything about it. I think it’s good that the coach is making them earn back their jerseys, hopefully doing community service and activities to build character will help them realize their wrongs and change for the better.



work cited: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2013/9/26/utah-high-schoolfootballteamsuspendedovercyberbullying.html