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Here is a good outline that I found online. Only 2 changes need to be made. Mark through the background  info in the  first line and replace it with "Hook". The hook is the first sentence in an essay. Secondly, mark through the 3rd bullet in the introduction paragraph completely. You don't need it

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Rough Draft of Essay due Friday!! It will be homework on Thursday night, but if students don't finish it  they will have 20 minutes in class to wrap it up. I will not grade this but simply critique and return to them on Monday so that they can revise and edit.

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Rough Draft of Essay due Friday!! It will be homework on Thursday night, but if students don't finish it  they will have 20 minutes in class to wrap it up. I will not grade this but simply critique and return to them on Monday so that they can revise and edit.

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Hi everyone! We are learning to write an argumentative essay, and debate the issue of cyberbulling and school involvement. Here are the articles that the kids will be using in class to debate and write from. I have also included a link to Learn Zillion which is a website that has 4 videos on essay writing that we have watched in class.

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Videos on writing an argumentative essay

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Videos on writing an argumentative essay

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6th grade argumentative writing: craft an argumentative essay | LearnZillion

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Crafting an argumentative essay by brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, and editing.

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The NY Times is running a long article looking at one of the favorite moral panics of the day: cyberbullying. The specific article questions how schools should be dealing with the issue, especially when it comes to activity that takes place entirely off-campus. The article actually focuses a lot of attention on the middle school principal we wrote about a couple months ago who sent a long email to parents telling them to ban all social networking from their kids -- effectively taking the "head in sand" approach to dealing with these issues. To be fair, in this article, that principal comes off as a lot more reasonable, initially telling angry parents that off-campus activity really is outside of the domain of what the school should be involved in.

In reading through the article, though, part of what struck me is that it seems like some parents are simply trying to get the school to act because they're unwilling to act themselves. Take, for example, this exchange towards the beginning of the article:

Punish him, insisted the parents.

"I said, 'This occurred out of school, on a weekend,' " recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. "We can't discipline him."

Had they contacted the boy's family, he asked.

Too awkward, they replied. The fathers coach sports together.

What about the police, Mr. Orsini asked.

A criminal investigation would be protracted, the parents had decided, its outcome uncertain. They wanted immediate action.

In other words, there were plenty of paths that the family could have taken, but they didn't want to actually do anything. They wanted the school to act as parents for the kid because they were unwilling to do so. That's not to say these things don't create difficult situations, but it seems like a weak solution when parents just punt the issue and demand that schools handle it. And, of course, the article also highlights cases where parents also get (reasonably) upset when schools punish their kids for off-campus activity.

It's no secret that kids can and will be mean. And with modern communication technology it's easier for kids to be mean directly more often and in much more public ways. That's a challenge, to be sure, but asking schools to handle those issues doesn't seem like an effective or an efficient solution.

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Should Schools Be Involved In Disciplining Students For Off-Campus Bullying?

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The NY Times is running a long article looking at one of the favorite moral panics of the day: cyberbullying. The specific article questions how schools should be dealing with the issue, especially when it comes to activity that takes place entirely...

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Is cyberbullying a problem in your school? Have you or any of your friends been taunted, intimidated or called names online? Have you ever cyberbullied anyone?

What responsibility do schools have to address online bullying, even if it occurs outside of school hours? How should schools tackle the issue?

Room for Debate recently asked readers to weigh in on how schools should deal with online bullies outside of the classroom. Here are excerpts from some of the opinions:

Stina Gumminos says first figure out why kids bully:

In the United States, it is assumed that children do bully, simply because they do. Maybe I have this completely wrong, or it could be a collision between different cultures, but I am from Sweden, and here we ask ourselves: Why do children bully? How can we make people more aware that this is simply not O.K., in any shape or form? Rather than discussing whether or not schools should regulate off-campus behavior, we should try to figure out why these kids bully, and how to make them understand that it is wrong. Problems needs to be fixed, not regulated.

Lilian Grae argues that schools have no authority off campus:

The domain of school stops after the last bell rings. Unless the Internet activity is being done on school time or in the classroom as an extracurricular activity, the school has no authority with what students do outside of school.

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean makes the case that schools should teach a class on Internet safety and decorum:

Schools should promote healthy interactions between students that strikes an appropriate balance between protecting civil liberties and promoting student safety. Internet safety and decorum are as essential to promoting a student's well-being as requiring physical education and health classes. Many schools have integrated technology into their curricula, and it's irresponsible not to include a component that emphasizes conduct.

And for a different approach, the Motherlode blog reported in June on a school in New York City that tries to empower students to confront bullying of all kinds through its curriculum. The above video shows how this school, The Facing History School, tackles cyberbullying by encouraging "students to be both good students as well as civic participants."

Students: Watch the video, read the Room for Debate opinions and read the article, then tell us...

- What responsibility do schools have to address online bullying, even if it occurs outside of school hours? How should schools tackle the issue?

- Do you notice online bullying? How big of a problem is it in your school?

- Should schools punish students for being online bullies? Should they offer special classes to educate students about Internet safety and decorum? Should they monitor what students say online? Should they try to instill in students a sense of civic responsibility?

- Or does what happens outside of school fall outside of the school's jurisdiction?

Students 13 and older are invited to comment below. Please use only your first name. For privacy policy reasons, we will not publish student comments that include a last name.

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How Should Schools Address Cyberbullying?

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Is cyberbullying a problem in your school? Have you or any of your friends been taunted, intimidated or called names online? Have you ever cyberbullied anyone? What responsibility do schools have to address online bullying, even if it occurs outside of school hours? How should schools tackle the issue?

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Many schools are now in a difficult position of having to respond to a mandate to have a cyberbullying policy, without much guidance from the state about the circumstances under which they can (or must) respond. When folks ask me if I think there needs to be a "cyberbullying law" I basically respond by saying "perhaps - but not the kind of law most legislators would propose." I would look for a law to be more "prescriptive" than "proscriptive." By that, I mean I would like to see specific guidance from states about *how* and *when* schools can take action in cyberbullying incidents. Many states have taken the easy way out by simply passing laws saying effectively "schools need to deal with this." Not only have they stopped short in terms of providing specific instructions or even a framework from which schools can evaluate their role, but they have not provided any additional resources to address these issues. Some states are now requiring schools to educate students and staff about cyberbullying or online safety more generally, but have provided no funding to carry out such activities. Unfunded mandates have become cliché in education, and this is just another example.

Moreover, school administrators are in a precarious position because they see many examples in the media where schools have been sued because they took action against a student when they shouldn't have or they failed to take action when they were supposed to. Schools need help determining where the legal line is.

Many states already have existing criminal and civil remedies to deal with cyberbullying. Extreme cases would fall under criminal harassment or stalking laws or a target could pursue civil action for intentional infliction of emotional distress or defamation, to name a few. Bullying (whatever the form) that occurs at school is no doubt already subject to an existing bullying policy. To be sure, schools should bring their bullying and harassment policies into the 21st Century by explicitly identifying cyberbullying as a proscribed behavior, but they need to move beyond the behaviors that occur on school grounds or those that utilize school-owned resources. But in order to do this they need guidance from their state legislators and Departments of Education so that they draft a policy and procedure that will be held up in court. School, technology, and privacy lawyers disagree about what should (or must) be in a policy. It's no wonder many educators are simply throwing their hands up.

We really like New Hampshire's recently passed bullying law, even though like other efforts it demands a lot from schools without a corresponding increase in resources. This section is key:

"Bullying or cyberbullying shall occur when an action or communication as defined in RSA 193-F:3: ... (b) Occurs off of school property or outside of a school-sponsored activity or event, if the conduct interferes with a pupil's educational opportunities or substantially disrupts the orderly operations of the school or school-sponsored activity or event."

This puts schools, students, and parents on notice that there are instances when schools can discipline students for their off campus behavior. It will take many years, though, before we will know if this law can be used as a model. Schools will need to pass policies based on the law; a school will then need to discipline a bully based on the new policy; then they will need to be sued; then the case will need to be appealed. Perhaps then the case will get to a significant enough court that it will matter. Hang on and see how it turns out. In the meantime, lobby your legislators to pass meaningful, prescriptive laws instead of laws that simply say "cyberbullying is wrong, now YOU do SOMETHING about it." It's election time, so I'm sure your local representative will be all ears...

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Cyberbullying Laws and School Policy: A Blessing or Curse?

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Many schools are now in a difficult position of having to respond to a mandate to have a cyberbullying policy, without much guidance from the state about the circumstances under which they can (or must) respond.