1. What Every Parent Needs to Know About Cyberbullying

2. What is cyberbullying? “using information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and page text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling sites, to support deliberate, hostile behavior intended to harm others.” Copyright © 2011 Virginia School Boards Association. All rights reserved.

3. Cyberbullying

5. Constant Pervasive Public My _____

6. How big of a problem is it? Cited from: http://www.commonsensemedia.orghttp://www.commonsensemedia.org

7. Where does it happen?

8. Cyberbullying vs. Bullying

10. Cyberbullying is… Faster and bigger. Hard to detect. Anonymous and normalized.

11. Harrisonburg City Public Schools Acceptable Use Policy

12. What should I do?

14. Code of Conduct If you wouldn’t say something to someone’s face, then you shouldn’t text, IM it, or post it.

15. Talk To Your Kids Rather than ask if your child has been cyberbullied before, ask them if they know someone who has been cyberbullied. Address it immediately! Encourage your child to talk to his/her school counselor.

16. Consequences Digital footprint Home consequences School consequences Legal implications

17. Practical Steps Staff awareness/training Of policies, of legal basics Of technology Cooperation with law enforcement Victims may have recourse where schools don’t Copyright © 2011 Virginia School Boards Association. All rights reserved.

18. In Closing… Link to HCPS home page