Survey of Students Documents The Extent of Bullying

By Darcia Harris Bowman

Amid growing concern over the connection between bullying and school violence, a national survey released last week found that nearly a third of U.S. students in grades 6-10 report they are bullies, victims of bullies, or both.

In the survey of 15,686 public and private school students, 30 percent of the students reported bullying others, being the target of bullies, or both.

More than 10 percent said they sometimes bullied others, and 9 percent admitted they bullied other students at least once a week or more. Meanwhile, 8.5 percent reported they were bullied sometimes, and nearly the same percentage said they were bullied once...