Critical Issues In Education by Diana Sayers

      Many pieces of information really stuck out to me after watching the YouTube film “Dark Cloud: the High Cost of Cyberbullying.” The film stars off by showing a montage of young students explaining how they are actively experiencing bullying via the internet. When Justin Preston, the founder of Rise Against Bullying, shared his bullying story on the internet, he said that was shocked to learn that so many people can relate to what he went through. At the time of his post, in the early 2010’s bullying was something that many people experienced, but not talked about. The film later introduced the mother of Amanda Todd, a victim of cyberbullying. Carol Todd is an advocate for cyberbullying awareness and she shares her daughter Amanda’s story in hopes to bring attention to this serious issue. Amanda unfortunately committed suicide after a picture of her without a shirt on surfaced on the internet. She was preyed on by an older man who later leaked the photo. Carol explained how she wa

      Hello, this week after reading and watching the material provided in the module, I have chosen to reply to the prompt “  Discuss any information you found in the documents and the film that was  1) surprising to you, and 2) not at all surprising to you. What experiences have you had (or not had) that made these facts surprising or not surprising?”        After reading the article from the CDC, I also realized that when I heard the term “school violence” I automatically thought of school shootings. I was quick to realize that the term covers much more than that.  I learned that bullying, sexual violence, and gang violence also falls under the umbrella of school violence, and that it not only includes what goes on within the 4 walls of a school between 9-3, but also what takes place commuting to and from school. Some  surprising information that I had learned while reading was that  “ 8% of high school students had been in a physical fight on school property one or more times durin

     Hi! This week I will be discussing the topic in module 3, “Gender and Sexual Orientation.” After reading the two articles and watching the Laramie Project video , I felt a sense of sadness that children in America face this much hatred on a daily basis. In an article I had found in addition to the assigned readings, “ Why your Child’s Brain is like a Sponge” (Age of Montessori, 2022) the author discusses how absorbent children are to their surroundings, and how adults may not realize the impact of what they expose their children to at a young age has on their beliefs, growth, and development. The article states the fact: “ Children develop 85% of their core brain structure by the time they are five years old. Your child will now build on this core foundation for the rest of her life.” This just further supports the fact that parents need to oversee what their children are playing with, listening to, or watching because what they hear now will impact their future.      In the first