An investigation of more than 4800 Australian primary and high schools has revealed more than 10 per cent have a Facebook page on which students are taunting each other and teachers with abusive language and offensive pictures.
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
STUDENTS at almost 500 schools are running Facebook sites dedicated to humiliating their peers as more and more children are forced to carry the incessant burden of cyber-bullying outside the school gates.
A News Ltd investigation of more than 4800 Australian primary and high schools has revealed more than 10 per cent have a Facebook page on which students are taunting each other and teachers with abusive language and offensive pictures.
Many of the posts are too offensive to reprint, but include graphic sexual discussion of students and teachers, shocking gore photos of suicide and accident victims, underage girls labelled "sluts'', male teachers named as pedophiles and references to Nazism.
The majority of pages - many which carry the school's full name and logo - contain homophobic, racist and misogynist jokes and drug references.
Some of the most insidious pages, typically called "burn books'' or "goss pages'', name and tag students in vicious rumours, which are then "liked'' and shared around other students' social networks.
One of the most shocking pages, from a school in Queensland, features gory photos of suicide and accident victims and a horrific picture of a battered child with an accompanying "joke'' about domestic violence, all alongside references to the school and photos of the campus.
Also on the page, which has accrued more than 760 fans since being launched in late August, is a photograph of a baby with a gun to its head with the caption "one like = one baby shot'', and a cartoon advocating methamphetamine use.
Another school page, from NSW, names a teacher as a "child molester'' and calls another a "c***'', while students who have posted complaints have been abused with homophobic slurs.
A page from WA featured a photograph of a male teacher and female students overlaid with the logo of a pornography website, accompanied by snide comments joking that he was a pedophile.
The page, which accrued more than 600 fans since its launch in mid September, also featured photographs of students fighting, jokes about female Year 7s being "sluts'' and arguments between students using extremely offensive language, all underneath the school's official logo.
That page has since been deleted, but two others using the school's name still exist.
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One principal admitted his school had little control over what students did on the internet outside of school hours.
"You can block all these things on our intranet and they can't do it at school but they have their own ways from home,'' he said.
But another principal added: "If students make threats over Facebook we are going to deal with them ... as if it were an incident in the schoolyard."
Cyber-bullying expert Dr Barbara Spears, from the University of South Australia, said "liking'' nasty Facebook posts was the new face of schoolyard bullying.
"Clearly, `liking' such pages contributes to the ongoing humiliation of others, and bystanders - those who contribute to bullying by not doing anything about it - are actively supporting it,'' she said.
Studies suggest 15 to 30 per cent of children are bullied at school, and around 10 per cent have been cyber bullied.
Dr Spears said bullying was not shifting from the schoolyard to the screen, but "expanding'' there.
Constant access to technology meant "there is no escape'', she said.
Child psychologist and National Centre Against Bullying founder Michael Carr-Gregg said traditional playground bullies were taking their warfare online.
"What we're finding now is that a lot of these kids are using the technology to literally make other people's lives hell and the burn books are a really good example of this because so many people see it,'' he said.
Dr Carr-Gregg said vulnerable children could not brush off that kind of humiliation.
"For them, they've already got depression or they've already got anxiety so the gun is already loaded and the cyberbullying, the burn book, simply pulls the trigger,'' he said.
The most serious forms of cyber bullying can attract stalking, harrassment or defamation charges.
And it is illegal to use a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence under federal law, but a Federal Police spokeswoman said no minor had ever been charged.
She said parents should try to deal with cyber-bullying through schools and only go to police as a last resort.
Dr Carr-Gregg said too few people were charged over their heinous online behaviour.
"Some of these burn books can result in young people harming themselves so I don't think the law is up to scratch,'' he said.
"I think we need a social norm that says this type of behaviour is unacceptable and it needs to be enforced."
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WORST OF THE WORST
Examples of depravity on Australian schools' Facebook pages
- Photo of a baby with a gun to its head, a photo of a battered child, gory pictures of suicide and accident victims, graphic pornography (QLD)
- Photo of a male teacher with female students captioned that he is a pedophile (WA)
- Male teachers pictured and captioned as ``child molester'' and "raper'' (NSW)
- Messages telling students to kill themselves (NSW)
- Students threatening to rape other students (NSW)
- Female student named as having an affair with a teacher (NSW)
- Female student named as having AIDS (QLD)
- School classrooms pictured and captioned as "rape dungeons'' (WA)
- Male student named as having had sex with goats (SA)
- Graphic sexual discussions about a female teacher (SA)
- Female teacher called ``slut'' and ``hooker'' (WA)
- Student with a speech impediment pictured and teased (SA)
- Black male student pictured and called a "n****r'' (WA)
- Page with a profile picture that reads "kill yourselves'' (QLD)
- Pictures of Hitler and references to Nazism (NSW)
- Praise for students who egged a teacher's car (VIC)
- Message to students about a particular teacher: "spit on her shoes and s*** on her face'' (VIC)
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