Survey: School bullying problem recedes; whites more likely targets than minorities

[Freewill]

Is this surprising?

Survey School bullying at lowest ebb in 10 years - StarTribune.com

Among the survey findings:

—About a quarter, or 24 percent, of girls said they were bullied, compared to 20 percent of boys.

—A higher percentage of white students — 24 percent — said they were bullied than black, Hispanic or Asian students. Twenty percent of black students said they were bullied compared to 19 percent of Hispanic students and 9 percent of Asian students.

 

[Katzndogz]

Once it became legal to bully white kids of course the numbers will go down. They will go up when the white kids fight back.

 

[Tank]

 

[Flopper]

Is this surprising?

Survey School bullying at lowest ebb in 10 years - StarTribune.com

Among the survey findings:

—About a quarter, or 24 percent, of girls said they were bullied, compared to 20 percent of boys.

—A higher percentage of white students — 24 percent — said they were bullied than black, Hispanic or Asian students. Twenty percent of black students said they were bullied compared to 19 percent of Hispanic students and 9 percent of Asian students.

No. The definition of bullying is much different today than 25 years ago. In addition to physical bullying, schools recognize name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, lying, spreading rumors, playing nasty jokes, unkind mimicking, encouraging social isolation, and of course cyber-bulling as bullying. There is actually a lot more behavior that is recognized as bulling than this.

There has been a huge amount of research on bulling and the results are pretty scary.

Kids who are bullied are very likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and health problems. Bullying victims are 9 to 10 times more likely to attempt suicide than other students. In 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied.

Kids who bully are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, get in fights, be convicted of crimes, and abuse their own children as adults.

This is why schools today treat bullying seriously. My grandson pushed another boy down and called him names. He was sent to principals office and a meeting was held with his mother an father. The principal said if it happened again, he would suspended a week. If it happened a third time, he would be expelled.

 

[waltky]

Online bullying targeted after suicide...

Bullying on social media targeted after Montco college student's suicide
November 27, 2015 -
After two tumultuous weeks, Richie Torres will return to the campus of Washington College following the holiday break with a mission: Get fellow students to stop using Yik Yak. The app, a social-media platform used to post anonymous messages, has exploded in popularity on college campuses. Administrators even use it to gauge student moods. But Torres and other friends blame cyberbullying, in part, for the suicide of Jacob Marberger, the Cheltenham Township teen whose disappearance this month sparked a multistate search, halted classes, and brought a national spotlight to the small college in Chestertown, Md. "We're all telling people to uninstall Yik Yak, because it's harmful," said Torres, a Washington College sophomore who was close friends with Marberger. "It's probably the most cowardly thing to do, to degrade someone anonymously to feel powerful."

Marberger's body was found last weekend in a Berks County park. Police say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As a potential motive, his friends point to the days and hours before his Nov. 16 disappearance. The 19-year-old political science major had been outgoing, talkative, and intelligent - "a walking encyclopedia" and student government leader who didn't worry about looking cool or being popular, according to Torres. "He was extremely bright," said Tahir Shad, a Washington College political science professor who leads the school's Model United Nations program. "I would say one of the brightest kids I've had in the program - and I've been running the program for almost 27 years."

But in October, after Marberger was bullied on campus - in one incident, students placed a trash can full of water against his door so that it flooded his room - he waved an antique gun around one night while intoxicated, according to school officials. The incident, reported weeks after it happened, led the school to suspend Marberger. He was cleared to return after he passed an evaluation to assess whether he was a risk to himself or others. But he still was awaiting disciplinary hearings that could have led to his suspension or expulsion. "He was kind of just a little quiet about it, which is very rare for Jacob," Joseph Swit, who was Marberger's freshman roommate, said in an interview. "But he said, 'I'm dealing with it.' "
On Nov. 15, Swit and Marberger ate dinner together in the dining hall, Swit said. His friend seemed in good spirits.

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