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Action urged over cyber bullying Action urged over cyber bullying
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Members of the teachers union, the NASUWT, will be discussing the issue of cyber bullying at their annual conference in Belfast. Members of the teachers union, the NASUWT, have been discussing the issue of cyber bullying at their annual conference in Belfast.
The union's Northern Ireland Secretary, Arthur McGarrigle said the bullying is becoming more sophisticated.The union's Northern Ireland Secretary, Arthur McGarrigle said the bullying is becoming more sophisticated.
Mr McGarrigle said that pupils were editing pieces of video to make teachers look bad.Mr McGarrigle said that pupils were editing pieces of video to make teachers look bad.
"When you think about it, it is crazy and really it's reached the stage where it has to stop," he said."When you think about it, it is crazy and really it's reached the stage where it has to stop," he said.
The conference will hear calls for website providers and mobile phone companies to take action against cyber bullying. The conference heard calls for website providers and mobile phone companies to take action against cyber bullying.
Education Secretary, Alan Johnson wants the owners of websites like Youtube to remove embarrassing video clips of teachers often posted by their pupils. Education Secretary Alan Johnson told the conference that he wanted the owners of websites like Youtube to remove embarrassing video clips of teachers often posted by their pupils.
Mr Johnson will be addressing the conference later. Shadow Education Secretary David Willetts said teachers should confiscate equipment being used by pupils to bully teachers.
"If mobile phones are being used in classrooms or around schools for taking images of teachers that can then be distorted and used for purposes on the web, I think teachers have the right to confiscate those phones and they should have no qualms about doing so," he said.
One in six teachers in the UK is thought to be the victim of malicious text messages and internet postings sent by their pupils.One in six teachers in the UK is thought to be the victim of malicious text messages and internet postings sent by their pupils.
"They are able to edit pieces of video and so a teacher for example putting a hand up onto a blackboard can be edited to look like a teacher doing something else entirely," Mr McGarrigle said."They are able to edit pieces of video and so a teacher for example putting a hand up onto a blackboard can be edited to look like a teacher doing something else entirely," Mr McGarrigle said.
"It's the facilities that they have to abuse and then to post them for everyone to see it.""It's the facilities that they have to abuse and then to post them for everyone to see it."