<div>Hi Kevork</div>
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<div>I found it useful to keep policies as consistent as possible between ICT matters and non-ICT matters. </div>
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<div>In this instance, it would mean having the same policy basis for external cyberbullying as you do for external bullying generally (eg bullying in the shopping mall, at weekends etc)</div>
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<div>This might help. If your school treats weekend bullying as a school matter, it would logically treat external cyberbullying the same way. If it sees it as a police/parent matter, ditto.</div>
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<div>If the policy is different between ICT-related and non-iCT-related bullying, it would be interesting to know the rationale.</div>
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<div>If by external you mean using external services to bully in school time - that's the same as using a Telstra mobile in school time to bully a student, or using a US-made tool to beat another student. The instrument of bullying seems irrelevant and the issue seems to be a school matter as it happens in school time when students are in school care.</div>
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<div>None of this has any legal status of course, but it seems logical (to me anyway!).</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Ken (TASITE Tasmania)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kevork Krozian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kroset@novell1.fhc.vic.edu.au">Kroset@novell1.fhc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Folks,<br><br> A potentially curly one for you although I am in no doubt about my attitude to the issue.<br>
<br> We are just finalising our Acceptable Use Policy and want to use correct and current language for the cyber bullying component.<br>The issue is that cyber bullying can be twofold -- one which occurs on the school system and the other which occurs on external systems such as MySpace, Facebook , YouTubem Hotmail , chatlines etc.<br>
<br>There shouldn't be any doubt about school attitudes to internal bullying, but what are the attitudes about bullying on external systems ? Do schools have policies to deal with it exactly the same way as if it happened on the school system once the evidence is in ? or do schools consider it an "external" matter that should be dealt with by parents and possibly police ?<br>
<br>If there is any current wording that has worked for any schools out there maybe even based on legal advice it would be great if I can have a copy to adapt for our local policy.<br>Whilst I am sure most readers would be interested in the positions schools hold and have taken, if anyone wishes to keep it off list a direct reply is fine too.<br>
<br><br><br><br>With thanks<br><br><br><br>Kevork Krozian<br>IT Manager , Forest Hill College<br><a href="mailto:k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au">k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br><a href="http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
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