The latest bullying stats are disturbing:

• Bullying begins in elementary school, peaks in middle school.
• 9 out of 10 cases of bullying are NOT reported.
• 80-90% of adolescents reported being bullied during their school years.
• 15-30% of students report being victims of bullying regularly.
• 71% of teachers surveyed maintained that they always intervene during such situations. However, 71% of students didn’t report bullying because they don’t think teachers care!
  (from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics, 2007)

Ouch!  This represents a serious breakdown in communication AND appropriate concession.

Lip Service?

You may find this hard to believe…but, according to Brenda L. High, Executive Director of Bully Police USA, Inc. “The British government has recently announced an $800 million dollar plan to deal with bullying in their schools. The U.S. government has recently announced that they would allocate 3.7 million to deal with bullying in U.S. schools.  High writes, “Although the United States is larger than the U.K., and more populated, we are unwilling to seriously deal with this problem” (2006, p.24).

Anti-Bullying Assemblies & In-Services Work!

One study observed, “Since school bullying is a known correlate of youth violence, such a finding adds greater urgency to the search for programs to prevent or diminish bullying among school children” (Kim, Leventhal, Koh, Hubbard & Boyce, 2006, p.1035).  “STAMP Out Bullying” is currently celebrating 8 years of comprehensive, school-wide bullying prevention, intervention programming.  How successful has it been?  Global studies support our findings which suggest a 50% REDUCTION IN BULLYING INCIDENCES (DiBasilio, 2008; Packman, Lepkowski, Overton, & Smaby, 2005; Olweus, 1993).  Contact us…we’ll help your school set up an anti-bullying program that works!

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