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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