15 Sickening Facts About Bullying That’ll Total Freak YOU Out

Bullying has become a serious and greater problem in the past few years as more and more people have started to come out and confess that they have been attacked by Bullies. The definition of bullying is an ongoing misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that causes physical and/or psychological harm. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power over one or more persons. Bullying can happen in person or online, and it can be obvious or hidden. It is also noticeable that in adjacent to the rise of bullying that the rate has risen by 24.5 percent since 2003, with the latest data samples released in 2007.

15. Food Allergies

Over 30% of children who suffer a food allergy report having been bullied at school. Food allergies affect an estimated three million children. This number looks atrocious to schools in regards to bullying and something must be done to stop it overall but especially involving natural aspects of the body.

14. Plastic Surgery

More parents are allowing their young children to undergo plastic surgery to combat bullying. For example, Samantha Shaw, a 1st grader, underwent surgery to get her ears pinned back to prevent her from being bullied.

13. Workplace Bullying

For every reported case of workplace bullying, it is estimated at least another 8 cases go unreported. Many children and adults don’t report their bullying case they are too scared to report. This means we don’t see 1/8th of the bullying cases.

12. Suicidal Thoughts

Children who were bullied were up to nine times more likely to have suicidal thoughts, say some studies. The increased rate of bullying now makes students and adults think about killing themselves because of some stupid statements that people make about them.

11. Bringing Weapons

Research shows that half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years. More than 10% of school students are bullied regularly. 30% of students who say they have been bullied said they sometimes had brought weapons to school, all school shootings were related to bullying in one way or another. Bullying has now combined with weapons and make it extremely dangerous for children at school as school shootings were related to bullying.

10. Location

An estimated 40%-75% of bullying in schools takes place during breaks, such as during recess, at lunchtime, in the hallways, or in the restrooms. These are the times in which a target most likely needs to seek refuge, and which the school needs to be most alert.

9. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual

20% of UK LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual) Bullied students surveyed have attempted suicide at least once. 57% were ‘outed’ as lesbian, gay or bisexual. 78% experienced rumors or gossip about them and 73% experienced name calling. 65% of the respondents said they felt less confident, 53% reported feelings of depression and an astounding 33% thought of committing suicide.

8. Stereotypes

Boys tend to bully according to group, such as “athlete” versus “non-athlete.” Girls tend to bully according to social status, such as “popular” vs. “non-popular.”

7. Detecting It

Bullying is hard to detect; someone you know and talk to everyday may be bullied and only show small signs of it.

6. Skipping School

3.2 million students are the victims of bullying each year. About 160,000 teenagers will skip school each day because of bullying. Bullying has even been linked to the majority of school shootings. With facts as devastating as these, eliminating bullying should be a goal every school system is constantly working toward.

5. Criminal Record

Young people who bully have a one in four chance of having a criminal record by the age of 30. Being the bully effects the future of you. Bullying involves criminal offences which ends up as ¼ bullies having a criminal record.

4. Teachers Intervening

The average bullying episode lasts only 37 seconds and 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and only intervene 4% of the time. Teacher’s aren’t getting involved in bullying and need to be educated in it to help these innocent victims and students.

3. Dropping Out

1/10 students drop out of school due to repeated bullying.

2. Girl Bullying

Girls are much more likely than boys to be victims of both cyber and traditional bullying.

1. Autistic

61% of parents of autistic children said their child was being bullied because of their autism related condition. 73% of parents asked said schools either didn’t handle the situation at all or handled it poorly when it comes to bullying Autistic Children. 89% said their autistic children were terrified of the aspect of spending time with their schoolmates outside of school hours.