Bullying

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, the pressure to have sex or to try alcohol or drugs .
The following is a list of facts based on the current research about bullying :
 80% of adolescents reported being bullied during their school years
 90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims
 15% of students bully regularly or are victims of bullies
 Up to 7% of 8th grade students stay home at least once a month because of bullies
 Bullies identified by age eight are six times more likely to be convicted of a crime by age twenty-four and five times more likely that non-bullies to end up with serious criminal records by the age of thirty.
 Students reported that 71% of the teachers or other adults in the classroom ignored bullying incidents.
The NICHD (National of Child Health and Human Development) researchers surveyed 15,686 students in grades six-through-10, in public and other private schools throughout the U.S. The nationally representative survey was part of the U.S. contributi...