Cyber+Bullying+Scenarios

CYBER BULLYING SCENARIOS

Remember that civil deals with property rights, personal dignity and freedom from personal injury. Civil penalties consist of fines and limitations on behaviour.Criminal law makes certain behaviours illegal and punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. (For example, if you don’t get your faulty brakes fixed and you hit another car, that will likely fall under civil law. If you ram another car on purpose, that will fall under criminal law.) Now read each of the scenarios below, and rate the seriousness of each one from 1 to 5, where: 1 = Totally acceptable and appropriate 2 = Possibly wrong, but no action needs to be taken 3 = Wrong, and school authorities or Internet service providers should take action 4 = Wrong, and civil action could be taken by the target or the target’s parents 5 = Wrong, and criminal charges should be pressed For any scenario you rate as a 3, 4 or 5, think about who is responsible, who should take action and what action should be taken.
 * 1) A student posts a negative review of a concert given by another student’s band. The review focuses on the band members’ skill as musicians and the quality of their music.
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 * 1) A student posts a story making fun of a teacher, suggesting that he is unqualified to teach. The teacher’s name is not used, but he is clearly recognizable to anyone who knows him.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A teacher discovers a Web site that is intended to mock a student in her class and will likely lead to the student being harassed at school. The site was not created at school and is not hosted on school computers (though it can be accessed from them).
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student uploads to YouTube a video of his band performing a song that makes fun of teachers. No specific teacher is named or is identifiable from the song.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student writes a letter to the school administration stating that a teacher has used improper discipline in class.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student creates a fake Facebook profile in the name of another student in the class. The other student is Middle Eastern and the profile contains photos of him doctored to look like Osama Bin Laden and statements, supposedly made by him, supporting terrorism.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">2  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">3  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">4  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">5  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student finds that photos of her, which were taken by her (now ex) boyfriend have been uploaded to his MySpace page. Then they were copied and reproduced in many more places, including photo-sharing sites. Her ex-boyfriend says that he is not responsible for what was done with the photos after he uploaded them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">2  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">3  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">4  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">5  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student writes a private email to his girlfriend accusing her of cheating on him.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A teacher asks students in her class to help write holiday greetings in a variety of languages for the school’s Web site. Without the teacher’s knowledge, one of the students’ contributions is a false and insulting statement against another teacher.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">2  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">3  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">4  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">5  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">During an instant messaging session with several participants, a student accuses her boyfriend of cheating on her.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student discovers that other students in his class have created an online forum in which students are invited to vote on whether or not the first student should be beaten up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">2  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">3  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">4  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">5  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student creates a Web site in which she criticizes school policies and suggests that several teachers, whom she names, are overly strict in their discipline.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student creates a Facebook group in which he states that one of his teachers is a space alien who is scheming to abduct students and take them to her home planet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">2  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">3  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">4  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">5  ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A student sends frequent emails to his ex-girlfriend. When she asks him to stop, he sends more emails, many of which contain abusive language or pornographic images.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">A teacher discovers that students are being pressured by a popular student to remove an unpopular student from their Facebook “friends” lists.
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