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Statistics on Bullying With reporting by Christian Pimentel What Is Bullying?
According to the website of the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (a branch of the federal government), “bullying” refers to any time someone “hurts or scares another person on purpose and the person being bullied has a hard time defending himself or herself.” And these days, it doesn’t only happen at school: “Cyber bullying” refers to the same process of intimidation when it’s done using the Internet, mobile phones, or other technology. Bullying happens a lot. Take a look at these statistics on bullying in the U.S.: Number of kids who say a peer has bullied them: Number of kids who admit to being a bully: Percentage of urban elementary school teachers who admitted to bullying children: Percentage of students who have been cyber bullied: Percentage of students who said they cyber bullied other students: Chance that a middle school student has cyber bullied someone: Percentage of teens who reported that they had been threatened or embarrassed by a bully by e-mail, text message, instant message, on a website, or in a chat room:
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our books Stories from New Youth Connections have been anthologized in several books by Youth Communication. Starting With I (Persea Books, 1997) is a collection of personal essays first published in NYC; in addition, The Struggle to Be Strong: True Stories By Teens About Resilence (Free Spirit, 2000), Things Get Hectic: Teens Write About the Violence That Surrounds Them (Simon& Schuster, 1998) and Out With It: Gay and Straight Teens Write About Homosexuality (Youth Communication, 1996) feature stories from NYC as well as from Represent, our other teen-written magazine. |
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