Sharlee Jeter, the famed shortstop's sister, is using the family's youth leadership program to help stop online bullying.
When Sharlee Jeter and her brother, former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, were growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, bullying happened, but she says that may have meant being embarrassed in front of a room full of people. With smartphones and social media, when kids are humiliated or harassed today, it may be in a public online platform where the whole world can see. According to 2014 research by the iSafe Foundation, at least 52% of teens have been bullied online, and 35% of children have been threatened while surfing the web.
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