If you are like most parents you breathe a sigh of relief once you get the kids off to school.
I brought up 5 special needs children that were adopted and I raised as a single male parent. I know that once they left for school I assumed they would be in the hands of educational professionals and would be safe.
I also knew as special needs kids they were all going to be subjected to a small degree of harassment. Children with special needs have always been teased and ridiculed by some of the other kids in school.
Many children who go to school are not prepared for what the might face, the school bully. It can be a far more serious problem than many parents realize.
Here are several Important School Bullying Statistics from 2009 Surveys:
*Over 75 percent of our pupils are subjected to bullying by a bully or Cyberbully and experience physical, psychological and/or emotional abuse.
*Over twenty percent of our children admit to being a bully or taking part in bully-like actions.
*More than 50% of bullying & Cyber-Bullying incidents go unreported to authorities or parents.
*In recently completed surveys confirmed more than one hundred thousand students brought guns to classes as a result of being bullied.
*28 percent of teenagers who carry weapons in school have been witness to violence in their families.
*On an average day 160,000 kids fail to attend school because they worry they are going to be bullied if they attend classes.
*On an average month 282,000 kids are physically assaulted by a school bully every month.
*Every 7 minutes a kid is the target of a bully on a schoolyard with more than 85 percent of those cases happening without any adult intervention.
*46% of males and 26% of girls disclose to having been involved in physical fights because of being bullied.
*Greater than 85% of our teenagers reveal that revenge as an aftermath of being bullied is the main reason for school shootings and homicide.
*The top 5 states regarding reported events of bullying and Cyberbullying are California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
*A child commits suicide as a direct result of being bullied every half hour with nineteen thousand bullied kids trying to commit suicide over the course of one year.
It is easy to conclude from the facts listed above that we must take action to address this danger to our children.
Unfortunately, as indicated above, most instances of school bully activity go unreported by the student victims.
As a result it is hard for educators and parents to help the victim in dealing with the harm that may have been inflicted upon them by a bully.
A relatively new type of bully, the Cyber-Bully, is relevant in schools as well as home and is a growing concern for parents when trying to protect their kids from this form of abuse.
Cyber bullying is the harassment of kids making use of the internet and follows the victims into the schools when they return to classes.
It is so significant that greater than one third of our children who frequent the net are targets of the Cyber-Bully.
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