Why do we need an awareness rally?
“More than one out of every five students report being bullied. The federal government began collecting data on school bullying in 2005, when the prevalence of bullying was around 28 percent. The rates of bullying vary across studies.
- 64% of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36% reported the bullying.
- More than half of bullying situations (fifty-seven percent) stop when a peer intervenes on behalf of the student being bullied. School-based and community-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to twenty-five percent.
- Students reported that the most helpful things teachers can do are: listen to the student, check in with them afterwards to see if the bullying stopped, and give the student advice.
- Students reported that the most harmful things teachers can do are: tell the student to solve the problem themselves, tell the student that the bullying wouldn’t happen if they acted differently, ignored what was going on, or tell the student to stop tattling.
- As reported by students who have been bullied, the self-actions that had some of the most negative impacts (telling the person to stop/how I feel, walking away, pretending it doesn’t bother me) are often used by youth and often recommended to youth.
The purpose of the anti-bullying awareness rally would be to give the youth of the community necessary tools to speak to adults and self-solve their bullying issues.
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