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“ Over 75% of students are subjected to harassment by a bully or Cyber-Bully and experience physical, psychological and/or emotional abuse”. “ Over 20% of kids admit to being a bully or participating in bully-like activities”.
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“Over 75% of students are subjected to harassment by a bully or Cyber-Bully and experience physical, psychological and/or emotional abuse”
“Over 20% of kids admit to being a bully or participating in bully-like activities”
“Over one half of bullying & Cyber-Bullying events go unreported to authorities or parents”
“In 2009 surveys showed over 100,000 children carried guns to school as a result of being bullied”
“28% of students who carry weapons in school have witnessed violence in their homes”
“On a daily average 160,000 children miss school because they fear they will be bullied if they attend classes”
“Every seven minutes a child is bullied on a school playground with over 85% of those instances occurring without any intervention”
“A child commits suicide as a direct result of being bullied once every half hour with 19,000 bullied children attempting to commit suicide over the course of one year”
October 8th, 2010 At a Highland high school football game vs. Bountiful A 13 yr. old boy receives a fractured skull after being repeatedly kicked in the head, by five 16-17 yr. old boys
Five days later, the boy has a five hour long reconstructive surgery Doctors say one inch lower, he would have lost his eye, one inch higher and he would have lost his life Just because he “said” something about someone else
The five boys were put in custody If there are felonies associated with the assault, the boys will be tried as adults
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