Dosomething.org, an organization created to help young people, shares eleven facts about bullying.
“There are over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year, 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4 percent of the time, approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying, 1 in 7 students in grades k-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying, 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school, over two- thirds of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying. With a high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective, 71 percent of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school, 90 percent of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying, 1 out of 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying, harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 percent of school shooting incidents, and physical bullying increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other hand remains constant.”
Bullying has become a major issue for children in today’s school. There are four major points that every person must know about bullying. The first point is the meaning of bullying. Second, is finding and understanding the causes of bullying. Next, is knowing the three types of bullying: verbal, social, and physical. The final point is how children are affected by being bullied, being a bully themselves, and witnessing to bullies.
What it means to bully. On bullystatistic.org it says “Some consider bullying to be purposeful attempts to control another person through verbal abuse- which can be in tone of voice ...
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...t in. Also, most groups begin to spread lies about another student to feel accepted by other students, but at the same time hurting another students feelings.
In conclusion, we must know what bullying is. When we know what bullying is we can be able to prevent it when we see it. Also, why do people bully others, not all the time does someone just want to bully someone else. It is for a reason. Than what forms of bullying are there, I discussed three different forms but there can be more. Bullying is a major problem in today’s society.
Works Cited
www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-school-bullying
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/why-do-people-bully.html
http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/index.html
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/why-do-people-bully.html
http://ncab.org.au/fourkindsofbullying/
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