how many students miss school every day in the united states due to fear of being bullied?
James
Guys, does anyone know the answer?
get how many students miss school every day in the united states due to fear of being bullied? from EN Bilgi.
Statistics and Laws
What is Bullying? According to StopBullying.gov, Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children and adults that involves a real or perceived powerimbalance, causes harm to others, and is intentional. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, overtime. If not managed, the aggressor and the target may have more serious [...]Read More...
STATISTICS AND LAWS
STATISTICS AND LAWS WHAT IS BULLYING?
According to StopBullying.gov, Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children and adults that involves a real or perceived power
imbalance, causes harm to others, and is intentional. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over
time. If not managed, the aggressor and the target may have more serious and lasting problems in the future.
BULLYING FACTS AND THE CHALLENGE TO BE MET
No longer is bullying confined to the schoolyard where children could previously escape the pressure of bullies and retreat to a safe place called home. With the rise of the Internet come new ways for students to bully others nonstop. Bullying has become an epidemic that affects not only children but parents, teachers and the community. According to the National Education Association, PACER Center, and StopBullying.gov:
1 in 7 students in grades K – 12 are either a bully or have been a victim of bullying.
An estimated 160,000 U.S. children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
83% of girls and 79% of boys report experiencing harassment.
Six out of 10 teenagers say they witness bullying in school once a day.
35% of kids have been threatened online.
Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBTQ youth report being verbally harassed at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation.
57% of boys and 43% of girls reported being bullied because of religious or cultural differences.
Bullies often go on to perpetrate violence later in life: 40% of boys identified as bullies in grades 6 through 9 had three or more arrests by age 30.
One out of every 10 students who drop out of school does so because of repeated incidents of bullying.
75% of shooting incidents at schools have been linked to bullying and harassment.
64% of children who were bullied did not report it.
Nearly 70% of students think schools respond poorly to bullying.
When bystanders intervene, bullying stops within 10 seconds 57% of the time.
Bullying has serious, adverse educational effects, and students who are targets often experience extreme stress that can lead to symptoms of physical illness and a diminished ability to learn, according to the National Education Association. This translates into increased absenteeism and impaired performance, as indicated by decreased test scores.
CALIFORNIA LAWS & POLICIES
WHAT TERM IS USED IN CALIFORNIAANTI-BULLYING LAWS?
Assembly Bill No. 2536 CHAPTER 419An act to amend Sections 234.2 and 48900 of the Education Code, relating to elementary and secondary education. [Approved by Governor on September 21, 2016. Filed with Secretary of State September 21, 2016.] legislative counsel’ s digest AB 2536, Chau. Pupil discipline and safety: cyber sexual bullying. (1) Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil from school or the recommendation of a pupil for expulsion from school unless the school district superintendent or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed any of several specified acts, including, but not limited to, engaging in acts of bullying by means of an electronic act. This bill would include engaging in an act of cyber sexual bullying, as defined, as an act of bullying by means of an electronic act for which a pupil may be suspended or expelled from school. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to display current information, and periodically update information, on curricula and other resources that specifically address bias-related discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on certain actual or perceived characteristics on the California Healthy Kids Resource Center Internet Web site and other appropriate department Internet Web sites where information about discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying is posted. This bill would add cyber sexual bullying to this list of topics on which the department would be required to provide information. The bill would require the department to annually inform school districts of the information on the California Healthy Kids Resource Center Internet Web site and other appropriate department Internet Web sites where information about cyber sexual bullying is posted. The bill would encourage school districts to inform pupils regarding the available information and resources on the department’s Internet Web sites regarding the dangers and consequences of cyber sexual bullying to help reduce the instances of cyber sexual bullying. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48900 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2212 that would become operative if this bill and AB 2212 are both enacted and this bill is enacted last.
DO THESE LAWS COVER CYBERBULLYING? YES
For a full list of California Laws, please visit California Anti-Bullying Laws at StopBullying.gov.
FEDERAL LAWS
Although no federal law directly addresses bullying, in some cases, bullying overlaps with discriminatory harassment when it is based on race, national origin, color, sex, age, disability, or religion. When bullying and harassment overlap, federally-funded schools (including colleges and universities) have an obligation to resolve the harassment. When the situation is not adequately resolved, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division may be able to help. For more information, please visit, StopBullying.gov.
Millions of Students Skip School Each Year Because of Bullying
Explores the number of students who skip school because of bullying or cyberbullying. Includes research from over 5,500 middle and high school students.
Skip to content
Millions of Students Skip School Each Year Because of Bullying
By Justin W. Patchin
January 3, 2017 Tags: absenteeism bullying cyberbullying school
Over five years ago I saw a statistic that jumped out at me: “160,000 students stay home from school every day because of bullying.” This is a compelling and frankly unacceptable number. I thought about including it in a book that Sameer and I were working on at the time. As I started to dig into its origin, I quickly learned that it was frequently reported but rarely attributed to any specific study. I came to see the stat as a ubiquitous headline in many anti-bullying blog posts, articles, and books, and yet very few authors cited their source (my students know this is a particular peeve of mine). Most commonly, the statistic was credited vaguely to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the National Association of School Psychologists. I never did find its original source (and therefore didn’t include it in the book), but instead wrote my own blog post pleading with writers to ensure the validity of—and cite—their sources.
The closest I came to finding existing national data to attempt to answer this question was the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey. In 2015, it found that 5.6% of high school students said they did not go to school because they “felt unsafe at school or on the way to school” on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey. Converted to raw numbers, this means that about 840,000 high schoolers skipped school at least once in a month because of safety concerns. But this figure doesn’t distinguish between different reasons for feeling unsafe (and only includes 9th-12th graders).
I don’t doubt that many students skip school every day because of bullying (I did when I was in middle school), but the precise number remains elusive. In an effort to shed some more light on this issue, we included some questions in our most recent survey of approximately 5,700 middle and high school students from across the United States. Specifically, we asked youth to tell us if they had stayed home from school at any time during the last school year because they were being (1) bullied at school or (2) bullied online.
While we can’t accurately estimate exactly how many students stay home on any given day, we do know the number of students who have stayed home because of bullying over the course of a school year. According to ChildStats.gov, there were 25 million 12-17 year olds in the United States in 2015. Based on our survey, 18.5% of those (or about 4,750,000 students) have skipped school at some point in the last year because of bullying at school. Approximately 2%, or over 500,000 students, said they stayed home “many times” due to bullying.
In addition, 10% of the students we surveyed (2,750,000 students in the U.S.) said they stayed home from school because of bullying online (1.2%, or 300,000, “many times”). Taking into consideration that many students who are bullied online are also bullied at school, we can conservatively estimate that approximately 5.4 million students skip school at some point in the year due to bullying (over 530,000 skip many times).
Other findings from our study also speak to potential academic consequences of experiences with bullying. For example, about 80% of the students told us that they had been bullied at school (and 61% said they were bullied online) in a way that really affected their ability to learn and feel safe at school (at some point in their lives). Moreover, students who had been bullied or cyberbullied were significantly less likely to report that they felt safe at their school. Specifically, 76% of students who were bullied at school (and only 57% of students who had been cyberbullied) said they felt safe at their school. As a point of comparison, over 95% of students who had not been bullied or cyberbullied felt safe at their school.
Taken as a whole, these findings demonstrate the toll that bullying (both at school and online) can have on the academic success of students. We can’t expect students to do well in school if they aren’t attending regularly. While we still can’t tell you exactly how many students skip school on a given day because of bullying (or miss for some other reason), we know that many do. And many others attend school, but with a focus more on staying safe than learning. This knowledge alone should be enough to prioritize bullying prevention and school safety initiatives in 2017 and beyond.
Note: The first chart in this post “School Avoidance and Bullying” was updated on 1/25/2017 to reflect lifetime experiences with bullying and cyberbullying. The original post included those who experienced bullying and cyberbullying in the most recent 30 days.
We want to thank the Digital Trust Foundation for funding this study. Image from Flickr (loozrboy)
Share this post
'160,000 Kids Stay Home From School Each Day to Avoid Being Bullied'
An astounding, alarming, and basically false statistic
EDUCATION
'160,000 Kids Stay Home From School Each Day to Avoid Being Bullied'
An astounding, alarming, and basically false statistic
By Eleanor Barkhorn OCTOBER 3, 2013
Danny Moloshok/Reuters
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Anti-bullying advocates can sign the End of Bullying Begins With Me petition. They can buy a copy of the book Bullies: Playground Push-around and know that the proceeds are going to support bullying-prevention efforts. They can also educate others about bullying. Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of D.C.'s public school system, tried to do that yesterday when she shared this statistic with her Twitter followers:
More than 160,000 students missing school each day because they're afraid of getting picked on, taunted, beaten up. That's an astounding number. So astounding that it appears almost everywhere there's a conversation about bullying. The National Education Association listed it in a press release about last year's National Bullying Prevention Month. It's part of a National Association of School Psychologists PowerPoint on bullying. It's been cited in Time and Ladies Home Journal, mentioned in a New Jersey State Assembly press conference, and tweeted countless times.
The only problem is, the source of the "160,000 kids" statistic is murky at best. Several fact sheets and other documents credit the National Education Association as the source. When I contacted the NEA, a spokesperson said the stat comes from the National Association of School Psychologists. But, he warned, "it is at least a decade-old statistic." Trying to track down the NASP study, I came upon that PowerPoint I linked to above. I also found this PolitiFact item from 2011, which suggests the number dates back even further than 10 years--and that it was never a particularly robust statistic in the first place:
Katherine Cowan, a spokeswoman for the National Association of School Psychologists, confirmed the number came from her organization, "but nearly 20 years ago."
"The statistic is extremely old and not valid in 2011," said Cowan. "It’s one of those things that the media really loved and grabbed onto and took on a life of its own."
Cowan said researchers calculated the number in the early 1990s from an annual survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but did not have specifics on how the statistic was determined.
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey, which has been conducted since 1991, asks high school students several health-related questions.
One survey question asks students if they did not go to school in the last 30 days because they felt unsafe at school or on their way to or from school.
A survey released in 2010 found 5 percent of high school students nationwide stayed home from school on at least one day for those reasons. But the question doesn’t ask why students felt unsafe, so the statistic could also apply to students who live in a high-crime neighborhood or fear crossing a dangerous intersection on their walk to school.
Bullying is a real problem. And it makes sense that people who are passionate about that problem want to draw attention to it with a big, eye-popping statistic. But spreading a poorly sourced number that doesn't hold up ultimately hurts the cause of ending bullying. It becomes easier for skeptics to ignore the problem.
Eleanor Barkhorn is a former senior editor at .
Twitter Email
Guys, does anyone know the answer?