Monday, October 22, 2012

Cyber-bullying Trend in Virginia


In Roanoke County in Virginia, bullying is not going anywhere, unfortunately.  The Roanoke County school district does a risk assessment in high schools every two years and found that 50 percent of students have been bullied and 53 percent have witnessed bullying. These percentages have been consistent for the last 10 years. However when they researched into cyber-bullying, they found a captivating trend, that in 2008 30 percent of students stated they had been cyber-bullied and two years later the surveyed showed 32 percent had been cyber-bullied.

These results show cyber-bullying is on an upward trend. The teenagers stated that cyber-bullying is worse than face-to face bullying because with a push of a button on a cell phone it is posted on a social networking site, so within 15 minutes or less the whole school knows about it.

The upside to the bullying is the school district is looking into ways to help the school counsels combat the cyber-bullying problem.

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