1. “ Over 75% of students are subjected to harassment by a bully or Cyber-Bully and experience physical, psychological and/or emotional abuse”

3. “Over 20% of kids admit to being a bully or participating in bully-like activities”

5. “Over one half of bullying & Cyber-Bullying events go unreported to authorities or parents”

7. “In 2009 surveys showed over 100,000 children carried guns to school as a result of being bullied”

9. “28% of students who carry weapons in school have witnessed violence in their homes”

11. “On a daily average 160,000 children miss school because they fear they will be bullied if they attend classes”

13. “Every seven minutes a child is bullied on a school playground with over 85% of those instances occurring without any intervention”

16. “A child commits suicide as a direct result of being bullied once every half hour with 19,000 bullied children attempting to commit suicide over the course of one year”

20. October 8th, 2010 A 13 yr. old boy receives a fractured skull after being repeatedly kicked in the head, by five 16-17 yr. old boys At a Highland high school football game vs. Bountiful

22. Five days later, the boy has a five hour long reconstructive surgery Doctors say one inch lower, he would have lost his eye, one inch higher and he would have lost his life Just because he “said” something about someone else

23. What is being done?

24. The five boys were put in custody If there are felonies associated with the assault, the boys will be tried as adults

27. What will YOU do?

28. Sheridan, John W. "School Bullying Statistics - The ABCs of Harassment." EzineArticles Submission Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints. Ezine @rticles, 2009. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. google.com Stagg, Jeniffer. "Ksl.com - 5 High School Students Held in Beating That Nearly Killed Teen." Ksl.com - Utah News, Sports, Weather and Classifieds. Ksl.com, Oct.-Nov. 2010. Web. 19 Nov. 2010.