Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Can Laws Be Made?

I wanted to looked further into laws that are being made about cyberbullying in Texas. I was wondering if laws even can be made against cyberbullying because the Internet is the main source of cyberbullying and it is such a big place,it would be hard ot enforce laws. I found a few laws made about cyberbullying in Texas.

The first law is requiring that the Texas School Safety Center make programs that address and can respond better to incidents of cyberbullying. Another law that will be enacted in 2012-2013 is requiring schools to better address cyberbullying. This includes parent notification, conselling and protecting of the children that admit to have been bullied. Another law will allow the bully to be transferred to anopther classroom, away from the victim. Another law requires that school have a intervention and prevention program, which will keep watch on potenital suicide victims and keep watch on any victims.

These laws seem like they will make an impact. I think that starting at school is the best way to go about cyberbullying. I am not sure there is any other way to go about it since in Internet is so big and it would be hard to enforce any laws. I also this that raising awareness in schools would help the problem too.

http://www.bullypolice.org/tx_law.html

1 comment:

  1. This law sounds like a good move in the right direction for preventing cyberbullying. However, I wonder how much it will strain already over-stretched budgets in education.

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