Facts About Bullying

Often times I find statistics about bullying, teen suicide, and LGBTQ discrimination and they tend to get a bit lost in all of the articles. Here is where you can find a cumulative list of those statistics. I will do my best to reference all stats for authenticity.

The National Education Association estimates 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear. Forty three percent report harassment in the restroom at school, including emotional and physical abuse. Since 100,000 students carry a gun to school, and of those young bullies, one in four will go to jail by age 30.

Source: http://www.news4jax.com/news/Teen-singer-commits-to-fighting-bullies/-/475880/4833388/-/96raf8/-/

According to the National School Safety Center, U.S. schools harbor 2 million bullies. Every seven minutes a child is bullied on the playground, adults intervene 4 percent of the time, other kids intervene 11 percent of the time.  But for the most part, 85 percent of the time, no one helps the child being bullied.

Source: http://www.news4jax.com/news/Teen-singer-commits-to-fighting-bullies/-/475880/4833388/-/96raf8/-/

About 40 percent of the approximately one in nine youths who attempt suicide in high school made a first attempt during elementary or middle school, and those childhood suicide attempts were associated with higher depression scores recorded at the time, providing evidence young adults can recall their first suicide attempts reliably, the UW team found in a study documented in the November 2011 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/315178