If you are like most parents you breathe a sigh of relief once you get the kids off to school.
I raised five very special students 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.
However, many kids who ride the "long bus" are not so fortunate. They are, in some cases, in more of a dangerous situation than they were before leaving for school.
Here are some Important School Bullying Statistics from recent Surveys:
*More than 75% of our children are subjected to persecution by a bully or Cyberbully and undergo physical, psychological and/or emotional abuse.
*More than 20% of our students confess to being a bully or participating in bully-like activities.
*Greater than 50% of bullying & Cyber bullying incidents go without ever being reported to someone who can help them with the problem..
*In 2009 surveys confirmed over 100,000 students carried guns to school as a consequence of being bullied.
*28 percent of children who bring weapons in school have witnessed violence in their families.
*On a daily average one hundred sixty thousand students skip school because they worry they will be bullied if they attend classes.
*On a monthly average 282,000 kids are physically assaulted by a school bully each month.
*Every seven minutes a child is bullied on a schoolyard with more than 85% of those events happening without any intervention.
*forty six percent of males and 26% of females acknowledge to having been involved in physical fights in consequence of being bullied.
*Over eighty five percent of our students express that revenge as a result of being bullied is the main reason for school shootings and homicide.
*The leading five states in regards to reported incidents of bullying & Cyber-Bullying are California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, & Washington.
*A child commits suicide as a direct result of being bullied every 1/2 hour with nineteen thousand bullied children attempting to commit suicide over the course of one year.
As you can see from the school bullying statistics listed above it is indeed a serious problem that must be addressed whenever discovered.
It is unfortunate that the majority of school bullying cases go unreported.
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.
Cyberbullying is the harassment of children making use of the world-wide-web and filters into the schools when they return to classes.
It is so significant that over 1/3 of our children who use the web are targets of the Cyberbully.
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