The numbers seem to indicate bullying touches nearly every student and sexual orientation is more or less incidental to the frequency of harassment and intimidation experienced in our schools. With 90% of 4th through 8th graders reporting being victims of bullying and 80% of adolescents reporting being bullied during their school years (similar to that experienced by homosexual students), are gay advocates using bullying as a pretext for gaining access to our children to promote their ideology?
80% of adolescents reported being bullied during their school years
90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims
15% of students bully regularly or are victims of bullies
Up to 7% of 8th grade students stay home at least once a month because of bullies
Bullies identified by age eight are six times more likely to be convicted of a crime by age twenty-four and five times more likely that non-bullies to end up with serious criminal records by the age of thirty.
Students reported that 71% of the teachers or other adults in the classroom ignored bullying incidents.
When asked students uniformly expressed the desire that teachers intervene rather than ignore teasing and bullying.
Aggressive behavior is learned early and becomes resistant to change if it persists beyond age eight.
Bullying most often occurs at school where there is minimal or no supervision (e.g.,playground, hallways, cafeteria).
Most bullying is verbal.
Bullying begins in elementary school, peaks in middle school, diminishes but does not disappear in high school.
Both boys and girls bully, usually same sex classmates, with female bullying taking indirect, manipulative forms.
Bullying can have devastating long term effects on its victims.
Maine Project Against Bullying
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