{"id":5430,"date":"2020-01-08T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:29:40","slug":"cyberbullying-and-its-affects-in-indian-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/cyberbullying-and-its-affects-in-indian-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberbullying and its affects in Indian education system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The point, that we need to be more mindful of the casual misogyny in our own homes, was almost prescient: around the same time.<br \/>\n\u2022 A top IB school in Mumbai suspended eight middle school students for making threatening and sexually explicit remarks in a WhatsApp conversation.<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cyber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5432\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Cyber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The story, buried by the NRC\/CAA furore, is an important one because while it\u2019s a known fact that kids can be incredibly mean, that they were using terms like \u2018gang bang\u2019 to describe what they want to do to girls at the ripe old age of 14, was a fresh shocker.<br \/>\n\u2022 The transcript of the chat floating around WhatsApp runs into tens of pages: classmates, two females specifically, body shamed and jeered at with homophobic slurs and desperate profanities.<br \/>\n\u2022 The word \u2018rape\u2019 featured repeatedly. IB school fees can be upwards of Rs 50,000 per month, so these kids come from privileged backgrounds.<br \/>\n\u2022 If this is how the progeny of the educated elite are behaving, it\u2019s clear there is a serious values crisis across socio-economic groups in the country.<br \/>\n\u2022 And this is not a problem that can be solved by attending the best school money can buy. We\u2019d do well to take into account that children spend approximately six hours in school five days a week.<br \/>\n\u2022 Counting the summer, winter, autumn breaks, and weekends, they\u2019re probably in school for less than seven months a year.<br \/>\n\u2022 When incidents like this happen, it\u2019s unfair to blame schools, when 80 per cent of what children imbibe is from their home environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Effects of cyberbullying:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a teenager is making lewd comments or using foul language, sure, peer group influence plays a part and so does social media.<br \/>\n\u2022 But if the parenting has been right, a child would know instinctively what\u2019s never to be thought, said and never, ever, written.<br \/>\n\u2022 Where the schools fall short is in their response to electronic aggression, because the perception still is that bullying is limited to pushing and shoving on the playground.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u2018Cyberbullying\u2019 may be bandied around liberally but Indian schools don\u2019t have an established protocol on what to do about cruel instant messages that can torment children as much as being physically hit.<br \/>\n\u2022 Schools hide behind the pathetic excuse that what happens outside their premises isn\u2019t their responsibility and refuse to acknowledge that teenagers live and interact via Snapchat and Instagram.<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5433\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Like the school diary has a set of rules and many carry an anti-bullying pledge, there is nothing unequivocally stated that Internet bullying will have extremely unpleasant consequences for students as well.<br \/>\n\u2022 Technology isn\u2019t necessarily the enemy. But parents need to explain to children that the same rules apply during interactions online, as they do in person.<br \/>\n\u2022 Just like how one wouldn\u2019t use certain slurs with someone you meet at a party, one can\u2019t use it online either.<br \/>\n\u2022 The stealthiest version of social cruelty must be addressed with clarity \u2014 and with penalties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Education Context: The point, that we need to be more mindful of the casual misogyny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}