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Friday, April 5, 2013

Mobile App Technology Aids the Fight Against Bullying


Today’s age of mobile technology has created a modern bully whose tools of torment have become cell phones and the internet, but now the technology that has once enabled bullies has become a force in the fight against them. Crime Stoppers have donated free mobile technology called TipSoft to schools as a program for students to anonymously report bullying, drugs, and crimes to teachers and staff. This is a huge step forward for many schools that have employed this method because students in the past have been hesitant to report wrong-doings out of fear that they may become a target. Now, students can help by anonymously reporting bullies and disarm them with the very technology that has previously enabled torment of others. 

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