Op-Ed: A Month to End Bullying
October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month. With one incident of bullying every seven minutes, bullying is sadly the most frequent form of violence that school-aged children encounter.
In the 2011 documentary film Bully, film director Lee Hirsch, also a victim of bullying, gives us a window into the lives of five school-aged children — from across ethnic, cultural, and geographic boundaries — who confront bullying on a daily basis. Their stories are unimaginably painful, but these stories are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The statistics on bullying are staggering.
Approximately 42 percent of school-aged children have been bullied online, with 35 percent being victims of online threats. Approximately 58 percent report that someone has said something mean or hurtful to them online. It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day because of the fear of assault or intimidation by other students. A staggering 77 percent of students have been the victim of some type of bullying.
Homophobic bullying targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students, and those perceived to be LGBTQ. Case in point: Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover.
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