TECHNOLOGY
East Oregonian
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Idaho leads the U.S. in cyberbullying
By ANNA WEBB
Idaho Statesman
BOISE, Idaho — Rylee
Driscoll was a student at
Rocky Mountain High School
in Meridian when fellow
students began harassing her
online.
It started with an old-fash-
ioned rumor that she was
“the rudest person ever.” The
criticism quickly blew up on
Twitter. Classmates started
sharing messages accusing
her of theft. Going to school
became so hard that she
started skipping class.
She heard the advice from
parents and teachers to ignore
the comments and turn off the
messages. She couldn’t do it.
“I know I shouldn’t have
responded,” said Driscoll,
who graduated last year. “I
just got so mad, and so sad.
You want to know what
people are saying so you can
defend yourself.”
One in five Idaho high
school students say they
have been cyberbullied,
according to the latest Youth
Risk Behavior Survey taken
by the Idaho Department of
Education. The 21.1 percent
rate is the highest reported in
the U.S, according to a new
report by Educents, an educa-
tional products company.
Girls were bullied far
more than boys — 31 percent
vs. 11 percent. The rates
Katherine Jones /Idaho Statesman via AP
Rylee Driscoll experienced bullying in high school,
founded an anti-bullying group and is now studying
nursing at College of Western Idaho. One in five Idaho
high school students say they have been cyberbullied,
according to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey tak-
en by the Idaho Department of Education.
actually might be higher, the
survey report said, because
students may underreport
socially undesirable or illegal
behaviors, including bullying.
The agency surveyed 1,760
students in 48 public high
schools in spring 2015.
But rates are also high
in surrounding states: 18.5
percent in Montana and 17.5
percent in Wyoming. The
national rate is 15.6 percent.
Other studies have found that
Intermountain West states
also rank high for suicides,
so similar factors might be in
play, including limited access
to mental-health services.
Chris Bates is a Boise
parent who became an
anti-bullying activist after
classmates
bullied
her
daughter several years ago
in high school. She blames
Idaho’s high rates on a coars-
ening of American culture, in
which adults’ dialogue in the
public and political spheres
has become crass.
“Kids see adults being
bullied online and on TV on
a daily basis,” Bates said.
“People have become desen-
sitized.”
Apps that let users make
anonymous comments can
foster bullying. The College
of Idaho banned the use of
the now-defunct Yik Yak app
in 2015 after students used it
to criticize classmates. Some
groups, including Educents,
are now raising similar
concerns about a newer
anonymous messaging app,
Sarahah.
The app description in
the Google Play store says
Sarahah
“helps
people
self-develop by receiving
constructive
anonymous
feedback.” Some reviews
say Sarahah is being used
as a cyberbullying tool.
In a CNN Tech story, the
app’s founder said the app
experienced massive growth
among younger users after
teens started posting Sarahah
messages on Snapchat. It’s
reported to have 62 million
users.
One of the cruelest aspects
of cyberbullying is that a
child’s own home is no longer
a refuge. Driscoll, the former
Rocky Mountain High
student, received bullying
texts and emails no matter
where she was.
Driscoll eventually was
able to channel her grief.
She founded an anti-bullying
group that she has since
passed on to a younger
friend still in high school.
Through that effort, Driscoll
created her own, more
supportive social group. She
is now studying nursing at
the College of Western Idaho.
Yet she still contends with
harassment and said it only
recently subsided.
David Gomez, a Meridian
police officer, is the school
resource officer at Mountain
View High School in the
West Ada School District.
He questions whether cyber-
bullying is as common as the
report suggests. He doesn’t
believe people define the
term precisely enough.
Gomez defines it as
repeated, one-way harass-
ment of a victim who does
not engage in the exchange.
“Normally, there’s a
Twitter fight, and I get a call
from a parent who tells me
their child is being bullied,”
he said. “When I start asking
questions, I usually find out
that there are two active
participants. That’s not cyber-
bullying. It’s social conflict.”
Social conflict, of course,
must be resolved, “or you end
up with adults having issues,
road rage and more,” Gomez
said.
The survey question that
led to Idaho’s high ranking
asked students whether
they had been electronically
bullied through email, chat
rooms, instant messaging,
websites or texting on school
property during the past 12
months.
Though Gomez believes
that cyberbullying as he
defines it is rare, it does
happen. In his three years at
Mountain View, he’s written
just four $74 citations for
cyberbullying. That happened
after
school
officials
intervened and disciplined
students as required by law,
but harassment continued.
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WINDSOR, Conn. (AP)
— Insurance adjusters are
bringing more drones with
them than ever before as they
head to Texas to assess the
damage from Harvey.
Companies are using the
drones on a much larger scale
to record images, save time
and spare human adjusters
from venturing into potentially
unsafe areas. Insurers have
increased their fleets since the
Federal Aviation Administra-
tion eased some restrictions
a year ago, and tried them
out in areas of the south-
eastern U.S. hit by Hurricane
Matthew last October.
Travelers Insurance, based
in Hartford, had 65 certified
drone pilots as of Friday
among the 600 employees
deployed to the Houston
area. Claims specialist Laura
Shell, who will be in Texas
this week, spent last week at
the company’s training center
in Windsor, Connecticut,
learning how to pilot drones.
“This is great,” said Shell,
55, of Lexington, Virginia,
whose job typically has
involves climbing a lot of
ladders. “It’s going to allow
me to get a look into areas that
aren’t easily accessible and
onto roofs and do it quickly.”
The drones will dramati-
cally cut the time it takes to
assess damage, according
to Jim Wucherpfennig,
vice president of claims for
Travelers. The company has
trained 300 employees as
certified drone operators and
expects to have about 600 by
early 2018, he said.
Instead of making two or
three trips to a house, often
with an outside contractor
trained in setting up scaffolds
and ladders, the adjusters will
now be able to do detailed
exterior inspections in one
trip. The drone’s camera is
linked to an application on the
employee’s phone, allowing
them to take measurements
and shoot high-definition
photos and videos, often
while the customer looks on.
The drones do have
limitations. They cannot fly
in heavy wind or rain, and
they cannot go inside homes
to inspect damage.
That’s one reason State
Farm has decided, for now,
not to use its drone fleet in
Houston, spokesman Chris
Pilcic said.
“With the damages caused
by Hurricane Harvey, our
claims adjustors will likely
need to inspect both the
interior and exterior of the
home to assess coverage and
damages,” he said. “For this
situation, we find that the best
way to service our customers
and evaluate coverage and
damages is through on-the-
ground claims handling.”
Most major insurers now
have a fleet of drones, and
the technology has become so
inexpensive that even smaller
companies are beginning to
use it, according to Jim Whittle,
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chief claims counsel for the
American Insurance Asso-
ciation. He said the benefits
were evident in the response to
Hurricane Matthew.
“If you had a good line
of sight, for example, but
you were stopped by nature
or law enforcement from
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put a drone in the area and
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was a property that had
considerable wind damage,
let’s say, and allow the
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