Bullying Common in Grade School
Many elementary school students report being bullied by their peers and bullying other children, a new study shows.
The study included 270 children in grades 3-6 at two schools in California and one school in Arizona.
The students completed an anonymous survey about their experience with bullying.
The survey included 22 statements about bullying, which included emotional and physical bullying.
Some survey statements focused on being bullied. Those statements included “Other students make me cry,” “I want to stay home from school because students are mean to me,” and “I am hit or kicked by other students.”
The survey also included statements about being a bully, such as “I am mean to other students,” “I push or slap other students,” and “I say mean things about a student to make other kids laugh.”
The students checked boxes marked “a lot,” “sometimes,” or “never” to indicate how strongly each statement applied to them.
Nearly 90% of the children reported being bullied and 59% said they had bullied other students. More >>>
Having been one of those students who seemed to be bullied quite often, and am now one of those parents who has an absolute ZERO tolerance for bullies, I wonder how other parents handle such situations.
I can’t imagine what I would do if I ever found out my kid was a bully!
I do know the kids in my children’s class know me as one of those parents and have learned to leave my kids alone because of it.
Maybe this isn’t the “right” thing to do, but warning the kids that I will do exactly to their parents what they do to my kids seems to have worked QUITE nicely.
