BULLYING MOVES FROM CLASSROOM INTO CYBERSPACE Sources : Times
News Network Date of Publishing:07/07/2010 When 14-year-old
Shruti (name changed), who’s overweight, read the emails
circulated by her classmates, which made fun of the way she
looked, she refused to go to school and asked her parents to
admit her to another school. It was only after her parents
talked to her principal, who identifies the errant students and
made them apologise that she agreed to go back to school. That
might have been a minor case of cyberbullying, but cyberspace is
increasingly being used by schoolchildren to vent their anger
and frustration, to bully vulnerable students, and also—by the
bullied. 'Bullying is no longer limited to the classroom. It has
entered cyberspace, which is unmonitored and which gives
children a false sense of empowerment. Children are forming
groups on social networking sites and sharing group mails to
make fun of people they don’t like,' said Dr Jitender Nagpal,
senior consultant psychiatrist, VIMHANS. Th