Response to Jarett's Blog

On Jarett's blog, he made a post called, "Death Threats Online From Students," and on this post, he mentioned that according to a new survey, multiple teachers have received death threats from students over the internet with the majority of the students being at high school age (60%) to even adults threatening teachers (16%).  The most popular place these threats are coming from are Facebook (77%) and the rest of them being observed on a website called RateMyTeacher.com (21%). I like how Jarett says that: "I have seen similar things like this happen. All over face book students are commenting about people they hate, dislike, or want to hurt. Going through high school I’ve noticed alot of the coments would post a lot of drama, and hatred towards teachers. Everything from perverted sexual jokes, teachers yelling at students, or teachers giving out to much homework. With all these sights out there comes a lot of drama and rumors which can be spread quickly through the web and media, and because of that it can lead to more serious issues such as cyber bullying and suicide."

I agree with Jarett a lot of on that part.  I don't use Facebook a lot, but sometimes when I am bored and have nothing to do, I log into Facebook to check my notifications and I would see people posting statuses about hating another person, and they want to hurt that person.  Of course, when somebody does not like a teacher, they would post something inappropriate about that teacher, also.  This can lead to a serious problem such as suicidal because of the quickness of words spreading through the web and media.