Students will be hearing more about cyberbullying this year.
The South Shore Regional Centre for Education has launched a new campaign called Don’t Feed the Troll.
Executive Director Scott Milner says the aim is to encourage students to not participate in online bullying.
Milner says motivation for the project came from meetings with Park View students last spring.
“Students suggested that if we’re going to focus on bullying, be specific about one of the concerns they have, and that’s online bullying. So really, the whole idea of this came from student voice from Park View.”
Milner says they want to raise awareness and get people talking about how to combat the issue.
“We want to make the students feel safe, secure, and have the ability to go to a trusting adult or even intervene as a bystander if they’re seeing this occurring.”
Students are being asked to submit artwork about cyberbullying before September 28.
Each school will select a submission from one of their students to be used in their own school’s anti-bullying campaign.
Watch: Thursday, September 13 is Nova Scotia’s Anti-Bullying Day and to commemorate it we are launched our Don’t Feed the Troll Campaign at every school in the SSRCE Region, which will educate students about online safety and bully prevention.https://t.co/TCz4B1ixYU
— South Shore Regional Centre for Education (@SSRCE_NS) September 17, 2018
Reported by: Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
