cyber bullying is a big deal

Don't know what happened to my opponent but I guess I will try to continue on. In the case of my opponent as I said previously cyberbullying seems to be more of a side effect of the real problem. That is bad schools with uncaring or completely useless faculty. I can't say how it is everywhere so I will use some of my own personal experiences as examples and as proof that schools with uncaring faculty are the real problems and not some kid behind a computer screen. I realize I will be talking about physically bullying and not cyberbullying but there is a point here I am going to get to. When I was in middle school I was bullied pretty badly due to my back pack. One time after school I found out while I was in the office that there was a file cabinet filled with the kids that also got bullied. The office staff told me it was the "targeted kids list". The school had a whole cabinet filled with kids that they knew could potentially explode and did nothing about it except make a list. While I understand bullying can't be completely prevented; the fact is there shouldn't be a huge list either. I was on this list before the events of Columbine. Meaning that list could have had kids that would have or could have pulled the first really bad school shooting well before Columbine. There were also countless other times where I went to a teacher and for my bullying problems and they did little or nothing at all. High school got worse. Me and my few friends were pretty much out cast. That means we were all bullied pretty bad. I remember one time some kid tripped me. At my high school we had proctors that were basically the one you went to when you had problems with students. When I confronted them about the kid who tripped me they told me to go tell the on campus police officer. I couldn't believe the response. The police officer wasn't there to police the student. He was there as mainly a guard since this was during a time after Columbine. He was also there to hand out tickets for fighting, but he wasn't there when you were being bullied by another student. I was bullied so bad that I remember this one kid who wasn't really my friend, but also wasn't a bully always thought I was going to be the next kid to bring a gun to school. He reminded me of this by usually telling me "If you ever bring a gun to school please don't shoot me I have never done anything to you". He might have been joking but I never could tell. To me he seem legitimately scared that I was going to bring a gun and shoot up everyone that had wronged me. What is my point to all of this? Simple. If I could have got up and turned off my computer or if I could have blocked the people that were bullying me do you think I would have had so many problems in school? No I wouldn't. That is the difference between cyberbullying and physically day to day bully. On a computer/tablet when some one wrongs me. I block them. I can also just turn off the computer. If they are persistent then the worst case is I have to delete my account or unplug the Internet for a while. While the "sticks and stones" line is complete BS in the real world online it works great. Words can't hurt you online because they are just that words. They are words that you can ignore completely. In some case they are words you can even delete. You can't delete, block, or remove a real bully. You can for a cyber bully. My other point is also that cyberbullies, while not all, are mostly strangers online. Strangers that you don't know and who usually don't know anything about you unless you are foolish enough to post your real info online. In the cases that a cyberbully is also a real life bully then the real problem is schools or parents that allow a bully to continue their terror from the real world to the cyber world. These are the same parents that allow their kids to play M rated games like GTA5. These are the same teachers that tell you to called the police or make a "targeted student list" and do nothing else about the problem. A kid then becomes so fed up with a physical bully that he/she feels that they are the only one that can put end to the problem. Then they become a problem because the world has shown them they they ARE the only who can stop the pain and suffering from a physical bully. They usually do this by taking the most extreme routes though. That means they will bring a gun to school and end everyone's life including their own. This is sad because why would our world tell our young "we don't care about you"? We do care and we need to show it. We need to show it by fixing our schools and making sure that when a bully goes from real world to cyber there is someone there to stop them in their tracks before they can escalate things .