In a recent study of students in grades 6-8 (Kowalski et al., 2005):
- Girls were about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying.
- Of those students who had been cyberbullied relatively frequently (at least twice in the last couple of months):
- 62% said that they had been cyberbullied by another student at school, and 46% had been cyberbullied by a friend.
- 55% didn’t know who had cyberbullied them.
- Of those students who admitted cyberbullying others relatively frequently:
- 60% had cyberbullied another student at school, and 56% had cyberbullied a friend.
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
the FACT is that cyberbullying will never go away until the PARENTS OF THE BULLIES do the following:
– Have knowledge of that their bully children are doing to others
– Care enough to stop it
Until that happens, we can talk about stats and figures and say ‘woe is me’ until we are blue in the face and it won’t matter. until the parents of the bullies take responsibility and hold their kids accountable for what they are doing, we ain’t going nowhere.
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