Cyber-bullying is a huge deal nowadays. Then when a Facebook page was started which is solely targeted at ridiculing teens, some folks inside the Overland Secondary school community immediately wanted it stopped. “It may be the racial slurs. It’s the sexual overtomes, the profanity,” said Sherri, a parent of a student at Overland Senior high school in Aurora. In order to avoid further ridicule, we agreed not to use Sherri’s last name and identify her daughter only as “Michaela.” “They posted that stuff about me that we feel a little bit victimized,” Michaela said. The page, that has been nicknamed “Burn Book,” features pictures of students from Overland. Attached to the pictures are inflammatory comments placed the secretive owner of the page officially titled “Overland Book.” “It takes real big onions being anonymous,” Sherri said sarcastically. Other students adding towards the comments. Not only does the page celebrate bigotry, it bashes gay students, offers threats, and merely plain bullies kids whose pictures were posted around the page. “The fact that it’s the school’s logo on it,” Sherri said, “so ugly, just absolutely ugly.” “It’s making our school look worse than it is,” Michaela said. “We already have kind of a [...]
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