One in four students report being bullied, but not all say they are bullied the same way. And some students are more likely to experience bullying than others.
That’s what one new survey found after posing questions to more than 180,000 students across 412 schools between 2012 and 2017. The data, collected by the nonprofit organization YouthTruth Student Survey, looked at fifth- through 12th-graders in 37 states.
The survey found that of the students who said they were bullied, 73 percent said they were verbally abused, 53 percent reported being socially bullied, 28 percent said they were physically abused and 23 percent of students reported being harassed online.
Results also showed that most harassment occurs in person and that students who don’t identify with a specific gender are more likely to be bullied than their peers. To read more from ARIANA FIGUEROA, click here.