Bullies Be Gone
Posted by anastasia on 01-25-2005Did you know it's "No Name Calling Week"? Yep, GLSEN and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, in collaboration with more than 40 national education organizations, officially kicked off the week yesterday in middle schools nationwide. The goal is to "draw national attention to the problem of name-calling in America's schools and to provide students and educators with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate name-calling in their communities."
They had some pretty interesting stats in their release although didn't see anything on cyberbullying, which is a growing trend…From the release:
A 2001 study by the American Association of University Women found that 83% of girls and 79% of boys report having ever experienced harassment at school, with over 1 in 4 students experiencing it "often." 76% of students have experienced non-physical harassment while 58% have experienced physical harassment.
A 2001 study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of over 15,000 public, private, and parochial school students in grades 6-10 reported that almost a third of 6th to 10th graders—5.7 million children nationwide—have experienced some kind of bullying.
The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that 77 percent of middle and high school students in small mid-western towns have been bullied.
In August 1999, CNN reported that four out of five middle school students admit that they act like bullies at least once a month.
January 26th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Call me insensitive. But, I think that bullying plays a very important part in social education. It is during those rough middle school and high school years that people develop the coping and defense mechanisms that they will need for the rest of their lives. I was bullied as a child. I was a nerd (was?). But in the words of Niche, \