Thursday, March 8, 2018

New Survey on School Bullying #bully

We have written often about school bullying. For example, here is an index to a series on bullying of children with disabilities that we ran a few years ago.

A new survey commissioned by the cartoon network found that as of September 2017, school bullying is still prevalent. The key findings of the survey of 9 to 11 year old students included the following:
  • A large majority, 77 percent, reported witnessing bullying at some point.
  • 1 in 5 kids admitted to being a bully.
  • Only 14 percent strongly agreed that our nation's leaders model how to treat people with kindness.

 The study also interestingly found that three quarters of 9 to 11 year olds thought that caring about others was important. You can read the entire 30 page study here.

You can read the NPR account of the study here. A related story about stressed kids in the Trump era is available here.

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