{"id":3438,"date":"2011-02-16T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:13","slug":"cell-phone-bullies-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-bullies-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Bullies Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-on-mobile.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-380\" title=\"Child on mobile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-on-mobile.jpg\" alt width=\"103\" height=\"138\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-380 lazyload\" title=\"Child on mobile\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20103%20138%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"103\" height=\"138\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-on-mobile.jpg\"><\/a>Bullies who use cell phones or social media sites to target their victims will be the feeling the pinch themselves if the Georgia House Democrats have anything to do with it.&nbsp; Yesterday the party introduced the second of three legislative packages intended to provide an alternative to those of the GOP.&nbsp; This one, the Educational Opportunities package, includes an Act that allows parents to take leave in order from work in order to attend important school functions or to look after members of their family, an Act to repeal the taxpayer funded credit that is giving fifty million US dollars to private schools even though public schools remain chronically underfunded \u2013 and one, known as the End Cyber Bullying Act, which specifically targets those that use social media and cell phones to bully and intimidate their victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur educational opportunity package focuses on the needs of students and parents, while addressing the resource issue of schools and teachers,\u201d says Rep Roger Bruce (D-64).<\/p>\n<p>Rep Carolyn Hugley (D-133) believes that the issue of cyber bullying via social network sites and cell phones is becoming a major concern for parents, and that something needs to be done to address the problem, noting that a loophole in a bullying Act that was passed last year currently allows those use such tactics to get away with it.&nbsp; \u201cGeorgia needs to expand our existing statute to include bullying actions that include cell phones, PDAs and social media sites,\u201d Hugley insists.&nbsp; \u201cWith the explosion of the internet and other technologies, nearly thirty five percent of school children have been threatened online and almost one in five has had it happen more than once.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullies who use cell phones or social media sites to target their victims will be the feeling the pinch themselves if the Georgia House Democrats have anything to do with it.  Yesterday the party introduced the second of three legislative packages intended to provide an alternative to those of the GOP.  This one, the Educational Opportunities package, includes an Act that allows parents to take leave in order from work in order to attend important school functions or to look after members of their family, an Act to repeal the taxpayer funded credit that is giving fifty million US dollars to private schools even though public schools remain chronically underfunded \u2013 and one, known as the End Cyber Bullying Act, which specifically targets those that use social media and cell phones to bully and intimidate their victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cell Phone Bullies Targeted<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-bullies-targeted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cell Phone Bullies Targeted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bullies who use cell phones or social media sites to target their victims will be the feeling the pinch themselves if the Georgia House Democrats have anything to do with it. 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