Second Response Question

Ok, this is the seconds blog post about bullying.

Response Question: It is 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night; you have finished your homework and you are chatting on MSN with three other friends. After 10 minutes two more friends ask to join the chat. By 10:30 pm five more people have joined and it is fun; however, there is a joke said about one of the people, rapidly followed by an insult. At first, no one knows how to respond, then seconds later a message pops up stating, “I didn’t say that! It isn’t me saying these things. Someone is using my name. What is going on here?”

What is the issue involved in this scenario? Why is this serious?

What would be a responsible way to handle this situation?

How could a situation like this be resolved? How would one of the three main characters from The Revealers deal with this situation?


Response: If i was in this situation as a bystander there would be several things I would do. First I would need to recognize who is involved in the scenario. Obviously the person who is being targeted is involved, but also the person who is using the program. Also, anybody that laughs or does not care about this is a participant. The rest are bystanders, sort of involved, but only if they choose to be. The issue here is that someone is imitating someone else, and they are saying things that are not respectful. It is not good if you are pretending to say inapropriate or something else by using someone elses mouth. I think that the obvious solution to this would be for all the people in the chat to impress upon whoever it is that it is not cool, nor is it respecting the person who is being targeted. Involving other people in this situation would be a bad move, just giving it publicity. I think that the 3 main characters would do something similar to this, but simply publicize it, and let everyone know that it is not cool, funny or anything else. Doing this is a horrible thing, which should be stopped.

First Blog Prompt

Blog Question: Is bullying a rite of passage of childhood and adolescence? Is it apart of the maturation process one needs to go through to reach adulthood? Explain. Mrs. Hogeboom brings up this topic on page 108.

Response: No, bullying is definetly not a rite of passage to adulthood. What bullying is is a way to make some people feel good, and some people feel bad. The victim is not passing a sort of test or rite while being bullied or harassed, and it does not change them for the better. What it simply does it removes them, makes them withdraw and start trusting nobody and nothing. They use almost all their energy trying to avoid the bully, and even when it stops they try to stay out of sight, not attract attention. Even those that manage to stop it aren't changed for the better as they just learn to be wary of people and always have defensed focused. If somebody thinks that bullying is a rite or test to prove your matureness that person should think about what he/she would do if they were bullied, and how they would react to the cruel torture.

NicoP

Hey all

Hello people, I have just started a blog for my LA class at AIS/D. This is to help us understand characters in a book we are reading, The Revealers. These characters use the school system to inform the school about bullying, through the internet and blog-like things. I hope that i will have fun doing this.

NicoP

PS. Sorry about the other blog website, im not sure what happened there but could not get on that account.