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(Philadelphia, Pa.) November 11th, 2009 | Despite the common misperception that bullying at school takes place only in unsupervised locations, new research suggests that the classroom setting is one of the places where bullying is the biggest problem.
The study, which was presented at the American Public Health Association’s 137th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Philadelphia, used anonymous online surveys conducted with more than 10,000 middle school students to look at where bullying takes place within schools.
Students reported being victims of many types of bullying behaviors. Within the most recent month, 43 percent had been physically bullied; 51 percent teased in an unfriendly way; 50 percent called hurtful names; 31 percent excluded from a group to hurt their feelings; 28 percent had belongings taken or broken; 39 percent had an unkind rumor spread about them; and 21 percent were threatened to be hurt. Additionally, 66 percent of the middle school students had been the victim of multiple bullying behaviors during the last month.
During the school year, 8 percent had skipped school at least once due to fear of others hurting or making fun of them. One out of every four students had skipped recess, not gone to the bathroom, lunch or a class, pretended to be sick and went home, or avoided a hallway or some other place at school to get away from a bully.
The researchers found that the classroom, lunchroom and hallways at school were the places where victimization was most prevalent (50 percent to 57 percent of all students in each of these settings) compared to all other areas where prevalence of victims was much lower (19 percent to 37 percent).
The researchers also found that being bullied in the classroom as compared with being bullied in other areas of the school was associated with a greater tendency among students to feel threatened and unsafe at school.
“These findings show that it is erroneous to think of the classroom as a safe haven from bullying and to think that more remote or less monitored areas of school are necessarily the greatest risk for students,” said H. Wesley Perkins, PhD, lead researcher on the study.
Researchers: H. Wesley Perkins, PhD; Jessica M. Perkins, MS; and David W. Craig, PhD
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timmy
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Empirically I agree with these findings. The teachers I had were bullies to a greater or a lesser degree, usually, but not always, verbal, and this encouraged us to bully.
Examples include:
"Kerr, you are a boiled owl!" - a regular insult by the Latin master to a lad named Kerr. He looked like an owl.
"Fatemi, you may be a wog, but you're a nice wog."
"Thicky Bell!" - Patrick Bell was not thick, but the French teacher hated him. And wogs, come to that. He was not keen on Fatemi either.
Patrick Bell was bullied but other boys, that I know. I was one of them.
This man was a true bully. He used to grab you by the ear, or worse the short hairs above the sideburn and slap you around the face when you made an error saying "Faire le 'smacky chops'!" or "Faire le 'biff-biff'!"
We were bullied over school food, too. One moron insisted that we ate all the fat and gristle on our plates, obviously because the starving children in Africa would be glad of it. We were made to sit until it was eaten.
In PE lessons the master in charge used to hurl a bunch of keys at us if we weren't running round the gym fast enough. If we'd all banded together we could have taken him easily, but we never even considered it.
All school discipline was down to bullies and bullying.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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