Re: Is this invasio of privacy the best way to handle cyberbullying amoung kids? I think not.

[Young Wang]

The question is, who’s paying for all this? And how EFFICIENT is this REALLY at preventing crime? There’s no way of proving one way or the other. Are $40,500 of taxpayer money really worth spending on this? Are there not better things this money could have gone towards? The bigger problem is that these days, BOTH ADULTS AND KIDS just don’t want to care about the safety of the community they live in. So we can ignore reality and simply make us feel better about having a chaperone. You have a chaperone at the school dance, ok the fight will simply take place at the park across the school. And don’t even get me started on the humping. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The problem is that BOTH ADULTS AND KIDS no longer want to take any RESPONSIBILITY for there personal actions/decisions. No matter HOW MUCH FREEDOM you give away to government, it will NEVER be able to counteract the IRRESPONSIBILITY of PEOPLE. These kids that rely on the schools to take care of them NOW are going to vote for MORE taxes and MORE government to take care of them when they get older and the cycle continues. Take someone like Damian, for instance, who grew up before the age of cyber bullying. He had to learn to handle himself and “deal with” other “kids that didn’t play nice” in REAL LIFE. So if you know how to deal with other kids in REAL LIFE, you aren’t going to have much of a problem dealing with the “cyber” version of these brats. But, if you don’t know how to deal with “bullies” in real life, the fact that you are “overwhelmed” by the “cyberbullies” is just a reflection of the fact that you don’t know how to deal with people in REAL LIFE. Now, you think someone like Damian would be “depressed” or “lose sleep” over what some troll posts on his facebook wall? Exactly. Why is it that the same troll/bully can post the same exact thing on Damian’s wall and Damian will just chuckle, have a laugh, post a witty response before finally getting bored and deleting it but some other guy will see it, be deeply offended, CRY, be the straw that broke the camel’s back and the trigger that led to his thoughts and act of SUICIDE. The answer is that for the 2nd guy, A LOT of OTHER things were going WRONG and OUT OF BALANCE in his REAL LIFE that needed to be FIXED. The REAL “damage” that cyberbullying does is that it simply magnifies how shitty and OUT OF BALANCE kids’ lives are(both the poster/bully that wasted the time for such trivial nonsense and the witness/victim/bullied that lacked the ability to deal with this individual in real life, whether that’s the RESPONSIBILITY of confronting this individual personally and/or a COMBO of taking the RESPONSIBILITY to contact and report this individual to the proper authorities whether that’s the school or the police.