In the US, 1 in 5 students ages 12-18 has been bullied during the school year.

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Approximately 160,000 teens have skipped school because of bullying.

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                                             Students who reported that they were frequently bullied scored lower in reading,                                                          mathematics, and science than their peers who reported that they were never or rarely bullied.

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The most commonly reported type of bullying is verbal harassment (79%),

followed by social harassment (50%), physical bullying (29%), and cyberbullying (25%).

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Labeling an incident as bullying can be important because it influences whether students tell an adult,

as well as how adults respond to the student’s report.

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More than half of bullying situations (57%) stop when a peer intervenes on behalf of the student being bullied.

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6th grade students experience the most bullying (31%).

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                                             70% of school staff have seen bullying. 62% witnessed bullying two or more times in               the last month, and 41% witness bullying once a week or more.

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Students are less likely to report bullying as they get older. Only 39% of high schoolers notified an adult of bullying.

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42% percent of students who reported being bullied at school indicated that the bullying was related to at least one of the following characteristics: physical appearance (30%), race (10%), gender (8%), disability (7%), ethnicity (7%), religion (5%), and sexual orientation (4%).

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Over half of students ages 12-18 who reported being bullied believed their bullies had the ability to influence what other students thought of them