Cyberbullying among school children

Foundations of Academic Success
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Cyberbullying among school children
Introduction
• Cyberbullying is analysed as practice which has caused hue and cry in the
whole legal system of Australia but till date there are no special legislation
to deal with this problem.
• It mainly implies to the use of electronic communication to bully a person,
typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.

Present situation
• Cyberbullying has also become an international public health concern
among the School children's and as such it requires further study.
• In Australia, it was found that Prevalence of this problem is increasing
continuously because children's make greater use of social networking
platform.

Cont..
• Cyberbullying complaints they are losing hours of valuable
teaching time each week.
• IRIS also found that 72 percent of Australian schools has
at least one incident of cyberbullying report to them in
2013.
• . As per the report of UNSW, challenges in obtaining exact
cyberbullying figures but it is analysed that Victimization
cyberbullying rates among school children in Australia
ranges from the 6 percent to 40 percent.