‘Ban YouTube,” say UK teachers
p2pnet news | politics:- Teachers in Britain want Google’s YouTube closed down to stop staff and pupils from being bullied.
At the PAT (Professional Association of Teachers) annual conference, “delegates heard that bullies have posted mobile phone videos on websites, showing teachers as well as pupils being attacked or humiliated,” says the BBC.
PAT backed a motion proposed by Kirsti Paterson demanding such websites be closed down, says the story.
A pupil,”posted a doctored picture of the teacher, headless, with the caption: ‘YOU ARE DEAD’,” says Channel 4 News, going on according to Paterson,
“Nowhere is safe from cyber-bullying,” the story has her saying.. “It can carry on 24/7 through mobile phones and in multiple forms online.
“Remarks, images posted online can easily be copied and made available to a global audience. In the short term, confronting this problem must be the closure of sites encouraging cyber-bullying.”
But, “YouTube is a community site used by millions of people in very positive ways,” the BBC has a spokesman saying, adding:
“It’s also used by organisations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to reach people on a range of important issues.
“Sadly as with any form of communication, there is a tiny minority of people who try to break the rules.”
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Also See:
BBC – Teachers in websites closure call, August 1, 2007
Channel 4 News – Cyber-bullying: Shut websites call, July 31, 2007
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August 1st, 2007 at 7:29 am
Sounds like these teachers are too lazy to keep kids from slacking off on their cell phones. It’s kind of like how stupid parents in the USA who can’t parent want videogames banned.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am
“Ban UK teachers,” says youTube
August 1st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Or they could just block access to Youtube from the school computers. Problem solved.
Feckin’ idjits.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:19 am
Did they ever thought of punishing the people who did the bullying?
And by punishing, I mean kick the offender out and send him to military school.
I think the problem is most of the times the teachers have no means to accomplish their duties.