“You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down.” Jeffrey Benjamin


"Bullying and it's Effects

Being bullied is an experience common to many children. There are no uniform ways that people categorise bullying or collect statistics, hence the difference in figures. From a small sample, the DfES reported that 4.3% of pupils said they were bullied two or three times per month. However, in 2003 the Thomas Coram Research Institute for Childline, using focus groups and questionnaires, reported that 51% of primary schools pupils and 54% of secondary school pupils said that bullying was a "big" or "quite a big" problem in their school. Read the report on Tackling Bullying.

A 2003 survey of 7000 teenagers' views found that 13% experienced severe bullying, and 42 to 47% experienced less severe bullying. Over the six year period before the Coram Report was published bullying was the main problem that children contacted Childline about, and in April 2004 to March 2005 this represented 23% of calls. Three quarters of the callers had been bullied by a group rather than by individuals.

For some children, bullying is not restricted to a brief period of time. In an international study, Smith (1999) reported that of the 10-20% of pupils in that study who said they were bullied, for 65% it lasted up to a month, for 13% for a term, for 9% for a year, and sadly, for 13% for several years.
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