Bullying Statistics
If anyone believes that bullying doesn’t take it’s toll on families, schools, and society take a look at the statistics below. Read through to the end and notice the cost for companies in dealing with this problem on the job. Who is paying for all of this? School districts now how to budget for bullying programs. That’s tax dollars that get spent just trying to make sure that people are treated with respect. Something we all should do freely, without the imposition of consequences.
- 60% of middle school students say that they have been bullied, while 16% of staff believe that students are bullied.
- 160,000 students stay home from school everyday due to bullying. (NEA)
- 30% of students who reported they had been bullied said they had at times brought weapons to school.
- A bully is 6 times more likely to be incarcerated by the age of 24.
- A bully is 5 times more likely to have a serious criminal record when he grows up.
- 2/3 of students who are targets become bullies.
- 20% of all children say they have been bullied.
- 20% of high school students say they have seriously considered suicide with the last 12 months.
- 25% of students say that teachers intervened in bullying incidents while 71% of teachers say they intervened.
- The average child has watched 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school.
- In schools where there are bullying programs bullying is reduced by 50%.
12. Bullying was a factor in 2/3 of the 37 school shootings reviewed by the US Secret
Service.
13. According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety Health (NIOSH)
(Sauter, et al.,1990), there is a loss of employment amounting to $19 billion and a
drop in productivity of $3 billion due to workplace bullying.
14. Law enforcement costs related to bullying are enormous. Since 1999, the Office
on Violence against Women (OVW) has spent $98 million in assistance to
address campus sexual violence.
is there any ststistics on teachers bullying students? please, i would love a reply. thank you
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If you are going to post information regarding bullying at school, no less, get your grammar correct. it’s = it is. its = possessive. Everyday is an adjective, as in – everyday wardrobe. Every day means every single day. You loose legitimacy not knowing these basic facts….
If you choose to correct another writer’s grammar, then you should proof your own writing before posting. “You loose legitimacy” is not correct. Just so you are correct, let me suggest the use of the proper word for this statement. The correct word is “lose”. When you fail to use the proper words during the correction of another, you make a butt of yourself. Have a wonderful day.
All you parents need to calm down bullying is not a big deal if you kid wants to kill him self maybe your just a poor parent, try raising a real human that can take what the real world with give them not a perfect world where no one hurts each other, really this is the best the worlds ever been you wanna go back to having villages raped, pillaged and your nationality wiped of the face of the earth. Teach your kids how to be adults
And if you young child has contemplated suicide maybe start actin like a parents and control you children, parents can’t believe that they’re child is just a weird, dirty, smelly person that people in society don’t wanna smell/see your freak ass ugly kid that can’t fit in with other children raise them better
[...] so today? bullying statistics include that 160,000 students stay home from school everyday due to bullying and 30% of students [...]
Dylan, that was very uncalled for. You must not be a parent, or have younger brothers or sisters, if you do I feel very sorry for them. From the sounds of it you must have been a bully while you were in school, picking on the weaker ones. What was your home life like, did you not have any self confidence so you had to down everyone around you and pick on them? Sounds like you still do have some issues to sort out from your reaction to this page. There are children out there that really do have problems with bullying. And it’s not their fault. It is never the victims falt.They can have a very good home life and still contemplate suicide because of the way they are treated in school. Your post above was very affensive. Even if someone is different, it does not give anyone the right to pick on them. Or say the mean and foul things you said. You need to learn to think before you post such things. You have a lot of growing up to do, before you can understand the “real world” as you called it. I will be praying for you and hoping one day you see what your word can do to some one. God Bless!
Why do people always have to be so cynical and disrespectful of people who are trying to put information out to aid other people? If you can’t say anything to contribute, please do not post on the site. Some people really are trying to learn about this epidemic.
So, as someone who has been bullied before because I was the fat kid, well, one thing I have grown up to see is that most of the people who bullied me as a kid are now adults with crappy lives. Karma (getting what you deserve) is what they say it is. I lost weight and am a success. They couldn’t lose the ugly of their behavior. I hope you wake up one day and realize what you are… an insecure person with a lot of issues. Someone who is happy with how they are and confident doesn’t have the need to comment how you did. That is a person who feels like they are nothing and are trying to feel better than someone else. Just make sure you remember the names of those you are bullying, because they will be your boss in the future. Good luck with that!
Well, I do not nornamlly do this, but apparently today is special.
Dylan, YOU are the reason today is special honey. Obviously you have no idea how terrible you sound and I’m just sure you wish you could take everything back.
I’m actually, or was actually, looking for bullycide stats and came upon your comment. It’s very offensive. Especially to someone who has held the knife and the bottle of pills. I’ve been there. A bully took everything from me but guess what, I took back everything and more. I’m happy now and you had no right to insult my, and the millions of suicidal teens out there’s parents. They were so strong and brave and knew just what to do. Prayers are coming your way tonight.
Don’t insult us if you dont know how it feels to have no hope.
how many kids commeted suicide ages 6-17 in the year of 2011?
Seriously, you cant just expect everyone to play nice. Teach kids to stand up for themselves, if your fat and being bullied for it, there’s not a better motivator to lose weight. Sexual preference cant be helped but gays don’t have to float around like fairies. I was bullied until seventh grade, then what happened? I grew a pair and lifted weights until people wouldn’t even attempt to mock me. Never even had to fight. If you shield kids their whole lives they will be unprepared for the real world. If you do things that are seen as stupid or immature and get made fun of for it, theres a good chance you’ll stop, and if you like the things enough don’t let it bother you or keep to yourself. Honestly there are circumstances that require intervention, but not the broad spectrum that people are trying to prevent. A little bullying can be benificial too.
OMG, why would someone say it’s ok to bully someone weaker then themselves. Children have a 63% higher risk of being bullied if they are obese, gay, or have some type of disability like: speech impediments, ADHD, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal bifida or from shyness, or having poor hygiene’s.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death between the ages of 15-24, and the fourth leading cause of death for children 10-14. More of our children, teens and young adults die from suicide that from cancer, heart disease, flu, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, aids and chronic lung disease, combined.
Bullies can end up paying consequences of their bullying. Not only can they be charged for harassment, assault, then can even be charged with manslaughter. Children today that bully are held accountable if the victim commits suicide because they can no longer take the abuse, then the bully can be charged as an adult for manslaughter. When bullies grow up they continue with their same attitude into adulthood and they are more likely to get into trouble with wrongful activities, such as drugs, alcohol, and fights. Statistics show that 60 % of bullies are accused for some type of crime by the time they are 24 years of age. Twenty-five percent of these bullies will have a criminal record of a conviction by the age of 30. This is a good reason for parents of children that bully others to step up to the plate and help control or figure out why their child feels the need to hurt innocent children. Other issues bullies can be involved with as they grow into adults: sexual or racial crimes, abuse their own children, domestic violence, social problems, antisocial personality disorders, problems with co-workers and friends. So Dylan please go get the help you so need before you end up as a statistic.
Ummm dylan and “dylan has a point” dude. 160,000 kids stay home a year, 400,000 are at a hospitle for hurting themselves and over 4000 kill themselves. I can go on with statistics all day long. The reason people are bullying is because they have issues with self esteem, or insecure about…physical stuff. Are you one of them to? Because I deal with trying to get people out of suicidle situations because they are being hurt, and they havw AMAZING home life. You are no better than the people who bullied you. It is pathetic and low. It weak and people who bully needs to be in jail. To many lives are lost and hearts are broken, Its a pathetic thing and you are no better,
Dear Dylan and the kid who is “Dylan has a point” people; people who are bullied take it as much as they can. What both of you had said was uncalled for and wrong. You do NOT have the right to act as though you are high and mighty and believe that they are just weak pathetic beings. Like the person under you had com.mented, you must have been one of those pathetic people who believed they were above everybody and had to bully others in order to make themselves feel better by doing it. Did you feel the better man becuase I bet that you were that type person who took pleasure out of the pain you were causing others. Either that or you were never put in the serious situation as others were. I know from personal experience of having helped othres through these type situations that it is not a game, it is not a test of their wills, it is not some weakness. Its a tool, a weapon, a pain, a hurt. You are not the one to make these decisions. You cannot sit there and idly say, “oh nothing is wrong they are just weak.” No. Its not right. You cannot be that way. Its not fair because some people cannot help it worth a dang. Some go through it for forever with no way out. Some have to resort to self inflicted pain or suicide to escape it. You should be one of those people that helps others, okay? Dont hate on them, its not right and its cruel. Quit being a child and step it up, youll realize it when you learn to be a MAN and find out your so-called “real-life world” so shut it boy. Thank you and goodbye little one. :)
People with hideous attitudes like yours are the reason bullying is still the vicious cycle that it is today. People like you are the problem. There’s a fine line between a parent teaching their kids to brave the world and its hardships and teaching them to stand up to bullies. By stating that parents need to “calm down” about their children being bullied you are of no help to this problem. You have no grounds for saying that a parent is only upset that their child is being bullied because they “smell funny” or are “strange.” As far as I’m concerned, you’re a bully yourself. For the record, I’m not a parent. I’m a teenager working on my anti-bullying research paper and you can make damn sure that I’m going to include your disgusting type of attitude towards this serious matter in my paper. Good day.
The whole problem is that people truly believe that bullying is a rite of passage. Teachers bully children, children bully children and children are dying. Death is forever, to leave this world at 9 years old because you are so sad is horrid. I was doing research to get people to sign a petion in Chicago to put recording equipment on busses for children with special needs to protect children, especially non-verbal children. I spoke to so many,(75 people) that were young adults who remember being cursed at and pushed by bus aids on their special need bus. The bill is HB3872. It is sitting in Springfield waiting on the Board of Ed to decide it’s fate. Please write your congressman. You can google the bill number. We started the bill because my friend’s son had his bookbag ripped by a bus aide and she told him if he was not quiet she would leave him at the dog pound for the dogs to get him. My friend’s son lives with autism. He has a phobia of dogs. The bus aid was told this on the first day, since mom was concern that he would scream if he saw a dog outside the bus. She wanted the bus crew to know that he stops screaming when the bus moves.
Being bullied while growing up is not a rite of passage.
I’ve been bullied in middle school for three years, because of a mistake some other person made. But it fell all on me. Those three years of middle school were the hardest, it really just made me want to change school ( I couldn’t, since I never told any of my parents about being bullied, or any other person that is. ) but to be honest, I am very glad to those “sick” and “childish” people that had bullied me ( I’m in college now, I’ve seen some of my bullies sometime, they’re still the immature people they were.) without going through that phase of my life, I dont believe that I would be able to learn what kindness is. Sorry, I know this is off-topic, but I wanted to vent this out for so long.
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im researching for a school project and i wanted to know what state are this “Bullying Statistics” from? can someone please answer me thankyou.
I like how we all have some to this page to learn information in bullying, but yet as adults we are attacking some persons because of an “uncalled for” “rude” comment, apperently they do not know what we have been threw. But you do not know what they have been through either. We all have past, but to make a brighter future we need to actually start with enriching the parents minds of these awful statistics and ways that children are growing up to think is “just a phase,” so that the parents can teach their children manners, such as respect and curtousy. And before anyone says “well you don’t know what it is like to be bullied” or “your all high and mighty” i have been bullied, heck i have been thrown in the big dumpsters jus because i was the nerdy daughter of a kindergarten teacher. it is not a good feeling to be called names, but it will not be stop if we keep attacking others for what they say, ya they have “no right” but they do have a right to an opinion.
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1.In schools where there are bullying programs bullying is reduced by 50%.
NOT TRUE! We had it in our school Nothing stopped!
I was bullied by students and Administration at Arvada K-8 a school here in Arvada, Colorado
People Who Bully Are Pathetic. People who are bullied do not have mental problems thats bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Everyone,
I was looking for some stats for a project I’m about to start called ‘Adult Bullying and it’s consequences, Fact or Fiction’ and I came across this thread of conversation.
We are looking for people to share their experiences and views of Adult Bullying for the research aspect of the project and by looking at this thread there are a lot of different opinions which is extremely interesting.
Please look at the Facebook page and leave some comments – would love to hear people’s insights.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adult-Bullying-and-its-consequences-Fact-or-Fiction/286327461459305?notif_t=page_new_likes
Thanks!
No offense to anyone on this forum, but talking about bullying will NOT stop it. i am bullied because my ethnicity, and because i am not white, i am not as good as others. and you may hate me for saying this, but i am going to. According to numerous sites, about 50% of the so-called bully related suicides, arent even related to bullying.
bullying is rediculous if u bully its really not cool caz ppl kill themselves caz of bullying im bullyied and i tryed killing myself 4 times :(