15% or one in seven children are
involoved in bullying/victim problems. Of these children about
9% are victims and 7% are bullies
90% of all kids will be involved
in or witness a bullying situation and say nothing.
In a mid-sized school, bullying
happens once every seven minutes.
The National Association of School
Psychologists estimates that about one million children miss school
each day for fear of being bullied.
By the age of seven or eight, bullies
are already in the habit of misinterpreting innocent behavior
as an attack.
87% of the 15,000 grade four students
surveyed by Weekly Reader reported being bullied.
One long-term study showed that
60% of the boys who were named as bullies in middle school had
at least one criminal conviction by age 24.
The percentage of students who report
being victims of bullying decreases with age. While 16% to 17%
of grade 2 students reported bullying, only 3% of girls and 6.5%
of boys reported bullying incidents by grade nine.
