If you don't put responsibility for bullying on management, who do you put it on?
IME, bullying was protected by the school because the rule was always "Anyone involved in a fight is punished, even if they didn't start it."
That meant that if someone hit you, you got punished for it. So you couldn't report it or you'd be punished, which basically meant that the majority of conflicts went unreported.
Nobody was holding the school responsible for it, and so they did nothing because it was easiest for them.
However, unlike in-person bullying, cyberbullying is always recorded. (Well, unless you're on voice chat or snapchat or something, I guess.) There's a paper trail for people to follow and determine what really happened.
Perhaps ultimately it shouldn't be the website that's responsible for that, but I know if I were running the website I'd feel ethically that I had to do something.
IME, bullying was protected by the school because the rule was always "Anyone involved in a fight is punished, even if they didn't start it."
That meant that if someone hit you, you got punished for it. So you couldn't report it or you'd be punished, which basically meant that the majority of conflicts went unreported.
Nobody was holding the school responsible for it, and so they did nothing because it was easiest for them.
However, unlike in-person bullying, cyberbullying is always recorded. (Well, unless you're on voice chat or snapchat or something, I guess.) There's a paper trail for people to follow and determine what really happened.
Perhaps ultimately it shouldn't be the website that's responsible for that, but I know if I were running the website I'd feel ethically that I had to do something.