Bullying

Statistics
Most children have either been bullied, bully others or witnessed bullying at school.
More than one in five children are bullied regularly at school.
In American schools:
160,000 + children miss school every day, due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
20% of students carry weapons to school to feel safer.
22% of students are victimised at the beginning of the year and 8% are victimised during the remainder of the year.
50% of students knew of a student who had switched schools to feel safer.
School results are 3% to 6% lower when students are bullied (APA Monitor. Oct 2011)
40% of suicide victims had been bullied at school. (Victorian Coroner 2007)
National School Safety Centre, USA, estimates that 525,000 "attacks, shakedowns and robberies" occur in an average month in public secondary schools.
Two thirds of school shootings were conducted by victims of bullying.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
Cyberbullying or cyberharassment is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means. Cyberbullying and Cyberharassment are also known as online bullying. It has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers.
What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘cyber-bullying’?

Bullying (match the words)