Teachers in websites closure call

Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 31 July 2007
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Teachers have called for websites such as YouTube to be shut down as part of efforts to prevent pupils and staff being bullied.

Delegates at the conference of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) said bullying can continue outside school and work hours.

At the PAT annual conference in Harrogate, delegates heard that bullies have posted mobile phone videos on websites, showing teachers as well as pupils being attacked or humiliated.

They backed a motion demanding that such websites be closed down.

Emma-Jane Cross, chief executive of the charity Beatbullying, rejected the idea of closing down websites.

She said: "Calls for social networking sites like YouTube to be closed because of cyberbullying are as intelligent as calls for schools to be closed because of bullying."

It's hard to believe that such people are teachers. Their motto seems to be "see no evil, hear no evil". Just because bullying isn't on Youtube anymore, it won't go away. They should start to think about the reasons behind it and work at the roots. I wonder why they didn't come up with the idea to ban cell phones, cameras and groups of three or more people. Seems like it is easier to censor others and hide the real problems.