School bullying statistics and cases, Javier Armendariz Cortez

1. Javier Armendáriz Cortez
California State University of Fullerton

2. huge problem with bullying
 Between cyber bullying
and bullying at school,
the school bullying
statistics illustrate a huge
problem with bullying
and the American school
system.

3. 1 in 4 kids in the U.S. are bullied on
a regular basis.
 School bullying statistics
in the United Stats show
that about 1 in 4 kids in
the U.S. are bullied on
a regular basis.

4. About 30 % of students in the
United States are involved in
bullying
 In a recent SAFE survey, teens
in grades 6th through 10th
grade are the most likely to be
involved in activities related
to bullying. About 30 % of
students in the United States
are involved in bullying on a
regular basis either as a
victim, bully or both.
 These school bullying
statistics show what a
problem bullying of all kinds
in the United States has
become

5. School Bullying Statistics:
 When it comes to verbal
bullying, this type of
bullying is the most
common type with about
77 percent of all students
being bullied verbally in
some way or another
including mental
bullying or even verbal
abuse.

6. include spreading rumors,
 These types of bullying can
also include spreading
rumors, yelling obscenities
or other derogatory terms
based on an individual's
race, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, etc.
 Out of the 77 %of those
bullied, 14 % have a severe
or bad reaction to the
abuse, according to recent
school bullying statistics

7. experience poor self-esteem,
depression, anxiet
 These numbers make up
the students that
experience poor self-
esteem, depression,
anxiety about going to
school and even suicidal
thoughts (bullycide) as a
result of being bullied by
their peers.
 Also as part of this study,
about 1 in 5 students
admitted they are
responsible for bullying
their peers.

8. Half have fear of going to school
 Almost half of all
students fear harassment
or bullying in the
bathroom at school,
according to these
school bullying statistics

9. fear and anxiety of being bullied,
 As a result of this fear
and anxiety of being
bullied, many students
will make excuses or
find ways around going
to school. School
bullying statistics also
reveal that teens ages
12-17 believe they have
seen violence increase
at their schools.

11. 85 percent of bullying cases,have
no intervention
 One of the most
unfortunate parts of
these school bullying
statistics is that in about
85 percent of bullying
cases, have no
intervention or effort is
made by a teacher or
administration member
of the school to stop the
bullying from taking
place.

12. Cyberbullying Statistics
 These growing numbers
are being attributed to
youth violence including
both homicide and suicide.
While school shootings
across the country are
becoming more and more
common, most teens that
say they have considered
becoming violent toward
their peers, wish to do so
because they want to get
back at those who have
bullied them online.

13. Cyberbullying
 As social networking and
online social interaction
becomes more and more
popular with sites like
Facebook and Twitter,
cyberbullying has become
one of the most prevalent
types of bullying that
occurs between teens.
About 80 percent of all
high school students
have encountered being
bullied in some fashion
online.

14. Most have done it more than once.
 About 35 of teens have
been actually
threatened online.
About half of all teens
admit they have said
something mean or
hurtful to another teen
online. Most have done it
more than once.

15. Putting an End to Bullying:
 Parents and teachers
need to do something to
stop it.
 Teens also need to stand
together and put an end
to bullying, by speaking
up or anonymous
reporting.

16. Anonymous reporting
 When teens see their peers
being bullied, they need to
report the incident or get
help. If teens band together
to address these issues, they
really don't have to worry
about being the target of a
bully since most bullies really
only attack those that are
weaker than them. By
standing together to prevent
bullying in every school, the
number of depressed and
suicidal teens can drop along
with those who fear for their
life while attending.

17. Recent research on bulying
 According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), suicide is the third leading cause of
death among young people with approximately
4,400 deaths every year.
 The CDC estimates that there are at least 100 suicide
attempts for every suicide among young people.
More than 14 percent of high school students have
considered suicide.
 Now we will present 6 well know cases of suicide
because of bullying-

18. 1.Ryan Halligan (December 18,
1989 – October 7, 2003)
 Ryan shared an embarrassing personal story, the newly
found friend returned to being a bully and used the
information to start a rumour that Ryan was gay. The
taunting continued into the summer of 2003, although
Ryan thought that he had struck a friendship with a pretty,
popular girl through AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
Instead, he later learned that the girl and her friends
thought it would be funny to make Ryan think the girl liked
him and use it to have him share more personally
embarrassing material—which was copied and pasted into
AIM exchanges with her friends. On October 7, 2003,
Ryan hanged himself in the family bathroom

19. 2. Cyberbullying Cases: Megan Meier
(November 6, 1992 – October 17,
2006), United States v Lori Drew

20. Megan Meier Foundation
 In December 2007, Tina Meier founded the nonprofit
Megan Meier Foundation. The non-profit was named in
honour of Tina’s 13-year-old daughter who hanged herself
in a bedroom closet in October 2006. Megan struggled
with attention deficit order and depression in addition to
issues with her weight. About five weeks before her death, a
16-year-old boy named Josh Evans asked Megan to be
friends on the social networking website MySpace. The two
began communicating online regularly, although they
never met in person or spoke on the phone. “Megan had a
lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem,” Tina said on
the Foundation website. “And now she finally had a boy
who she thought really thought she was pretty.”

21. Friends on MySpace began
writing disturbing messages
 In mid-October, Josh began saying he didn’t want to be
friends anymore, and the messages became more cruel on
October 16, 2006, when Josh concluded by telling Megan,
“The world would be a better place without you.” The
cyberbullying escalated when additional classmates and
friends on MySpace began writing disturbing messages and
bulletins. Tina said on the Foundation website that it was
about 20 minutes after Megan went to her room after
leaving the computer that the mother found her daughter
hanged herself in her bedroom closet. Megan died the
following day, three weeks before what would have been
her 14th birthday.

22. 3. Cyberbullying Cases: Jessica Logan
(February 15, 1990 – July 3, 2008)
 Jessica Logan was an 18-year-old
Sycamore High School senior who
sent nude photo of herself to her
boyfriend, but the Cincinnati
Enquirer reported that the photo
was sent to hundreds of teenagers in
at least seven Cincinnati-area high
schools after the couple broke up.
According to the University of
Alabama’s cyberbullying website,
the cyber bullying continued
through Facebook, MySpace and
text messages. Jessica hanged
herself after attending the funeral of
another boy who had committed
suicide.

23. Hope Witsell (May 24, 1996 –
September 12, 2009)
 A little more than one year later, 13-year-old Hope
Sitwell hanged herself after a picture of her breasts
that she “sexted” to her boyfriend was shared amongst
students at six different schools in area of Ruskin,
Florida, friends and family told CNN. Hope never told
her parents about the “Hope Hater Page” that was
started on MySpace that led to additional cyber
bullying.

24. 5. Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September
22, 2010), New Jersey
It was during the summer after his high school
graduation that 18-year-old Tyler Clementi began
sharing that he was gay. Clemenit’s room mate during
his freshman year at Rutgers University, Dharun Ravi,
used a webcam in September 2010 to stream footage of
Clementi kissing another man. According to the Tyler
Clementi Foundation, the teenager learned through his
room mate’s Twitter feed that he had become “a topic of
ridicule in his new social environment.” On September
22, 2010, Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the
George Washington Bridge.

26. 6.Amanda Todd
 In October 2012, ABC News reported that the video Amanda Todd had
posted to YouTube had been viewed more than 17 million times. In the
video entitled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm,” the
British Columbia teenager uses flash cards to tell about her
experiences of being blackmailed and bullied. A little over a
month after posting the video on September 7, 2012, Amanda
hanged herself in her home on October 10, 2012.
 Amanda began using video chat in the seventh grade to meet new
people online, and one stranger convinced the teenager to bare her
breasts on camera. However, the stranger attempted to use the photo to
blackmail Amanda, and the picture began circulating on the internet,
including a Facebook profile that used the topless photograph as the
profile image. “The Internet stalker she flashed kept stalking her,”
Amanda’s mother, Carol Todd, told the Vancouver Sun. “Every time she
moved schools he would go undercover and become a Facebook friend.”

27. measures taken to stop bullying.
 Because of this growing
number of kids affected
by bullying, more and
more schools throughout
the country are cracking
down on the measures
taken to stop bullying
 Many stratergies are
being used, kids pledge

28. Schools are now taking action
 However, now that more
and more schools are
taking an active
approach to cut down on
the number of students
that live in fear of being
bullied, the numbers will
go down.

29. Marches against bullying

30. Conferences against bullying

31. Antibullying campaing in
Washington D.C.

32. Books against bullying

33. More books

34. My books against bullying