"Words hurt more than blows."
Everyone in the classroom then, to teach bullying and cyberbullying lessons . Sixty eighth grade students of the "G.Caria" institute, together with the head teacher and teachers, met the managers of the Macomer police station in an assembly. A meeting where the delicate issue of the bullying phenomenon was addressed .
The State Police side with the school with a great goal: to ensure that the phenomenon of cyberbullying and all forms of prevarication connected to the distorted use of technologies no longer cause victims.
Therefore prevent episodes of violence, harassment, defamation, online harassment , through a work of accountability on the conscious use of words, gestures, images in social networks. The meeting was attended by the manager of the police station, Federico Farris, with the staff in charge, the principal Sergio Masia and with the pupils also the teachers.
«We felt it was important to offer this activity to the kids - says the head teacher, Sergio Masia - We are aware that it is necessary to understand the phenomenon well which is too often underestimated especially by the kids, who consider certain actions to be simple jokes and which instead often take the form of real abuses with significant consequences from a social and human point of view, but also from a criminal point of view".
