12 Interesting Facts about Bullying, An Article by NoBullying.com Released Today
London, UK (PRWEB) December 26, 2013 -- NoBullying.com, run by Treze Ltd, releases today an article on 12 interesting facts about bullying.
According to the article, Bullying is aggressive, threatening and persistent behavior that intentionally harms another person, physically and/or emotionally. Obvious forms of bullying may include hitting, fighting or name-calling and secretive or non-obvious bullying may include gossiping or purposely excluding someone.
The facts about bullying include the fact that each year there are more than 3.2 million students who are the victims of a bully. Bullying is also the reason about 160,000 teens skip school each day in USA. It is also estimated that about 1 out of every 10 students drop out of school due to being repeatedly bullied.
The article also mentions the important fact that 75% of school shooting incidents has been linked to bullying and harassment and also that about 56% of all students have personally witnessed bullying of some form while at school.
Macartan Mulligan, Co-Founder of NoBullying.com, said, “While it is quite a good thing that many people from different parts of the world are taking an interest in learning about cyber bullying, we at NoBullying.com look forward to the day where it is a thing of the past. We want to end this epidemic once and for all through education and kindness.”
He added that parents and teachers should make a point to educate the younger generations about the sad outcome of bullying online and off line. According to Mulligan, it is quite imperative to press for more firm laws condemning all acts of bullying and harassment.
NoBullying.com features many pages dedicated to parents, teens, teachers, health professionals as well as posts related to cyber safety and the latest news about law making concerning curbing Bullying worldwide as well as inspirational Bullying Poems and Bullying Quotes.
The website makes a habit of updating its bullying statistics and cyberbullying statistics regularly because it is essential to understand how widespread the bullying epidemic is.
He also added that anyone suffering from bullying in any form or way can always reach out to the team of NoBullying and they will be given advice on how to stand up to bullying or protect themselves online.
Ciaran Connolly, Treze Ltd, http://www.treze.co.uk, 0044-289-581-0610, [email protected]
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