[Year 12 SofDev] Policy regarding Cyber-bullying

[Tim Kottek]

Interesting question,
The school permits the external medium to be used on the premises, if that
tool is used to bully then the school has permitted a bully onto the
premises.
Ideally then any bullying material on the external medium can:-
1. Be handled by media owner within their policy, and
2. Police - much like a human bully entering school premises, and
3. Ideally if the tool could be banned for the culprit only that would be of
value, alternatively
4. The bully cold be accountable to the school population for loosing access
to the tool

Cheers

Tim
0425 777 230 Land line 03 5261 9354
ex Bayside Secondary - sea change refugee on the surfcoast.
tim at experiencetorquay.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:29 PM
To: itapps at edulists.com.au; sofdev at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Policy regarding Cyber-bullying

Hi Folks,

   A potentially curly one for you although I am in no doubt about my
attitude to the issue.

 We are just finalising our Acceptable Use Policy and want to use correct
and current language for the cyber bullying component.
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.

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 ?

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.
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.




With thanks



Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034


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