Bullying an overview of the concern in indiana - Presented By - Tammy D. Moon

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Bullying Cyber-bullying an Overview of the Issue

Bullying:

An Overview of the Concern in Indiana

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Bullying:

An Overview of the Concern in Indiana


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Bullying: An Overview of the Concern in Indiana

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Introduction

Statistics on Bullying & Suicide

What is Bullying as defined by Indiana Code?

What actions constitute bullying?

Characteristics of the bullying perpetrator

Characteristics of the bullying victim

Bullying in elementary and secondary schools

Bullying in colleges

Bullying in the workplace

Bullying and domestic violence

Closing

Statistics on Bullying 2009 - 2010

Statistical Ratio:

1 out of every 4 students are dealing with bullying

On a Statewide level:

As reported by the Indiana Department of Education:

Indiana total student enrollment was: 1,120,563. 2011/2012 Public School Enrollment: 1,041,557

Students dealing with bullying across the state: 280,141 2011/2012 Public School Students dealing with bullying: 260,390


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Indiana Student

Enrollment By Grade // Estimated Number Bullied

Grade 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012

Pre-K 10,753 // 2,688 11,486 // 2,871 12,490 // 3,123 11,652 // 2,913 9,539 // 2,385

K 75,437 // 18,860 76,299 // 19,075 78,215 // 19,554 76,753 // 19,189 78,157 // 19,540

Grade 1 85,095 // 21,274 80,961 // 20,242 80,064 // 20,016 81,393 // 20,349 79,357 // 19,840

Grade 2 80,526 // 20,132 82,873 // 20,719 79,089 // 19,773 78,855 // 19,714 79,258 // 19,815

Grade 3 78,737 // 19,685 79,914 // 19,979 82,175 // 20,544 78,968 // 19,742 77,863 // 19,466

Grade 4 78,202 // 19,551 78,840 // 19,710 79,991 // 19,998 82,385 // 20,597 78,627 // 19,657

Grade 5 78,708 // 19,677 78,568 // 19,642 78,869 // 19,718 80,079 // 20,020 81,985 // 20,497

Grade 6 80,118 // 20,030 78,971 // 19,743 79,047 // 19,762 79,584 // 19,896 80,257 // 20,065

Grade 7 81,097 // 20,275 81,204 // 20,301 79,698 // 19,925 79,926 // 19,982 79,942 // 19,986

Grade 8 80,847 // 20,212 80,871 // 20,218 80,980 // 20,245 79,786 // 19,947 79,583 // 19,896

Grade 9 84,931 // 21,233 84,534 // 21,134 84,232 // 21,058 84,137 // 21,035 81,766 // 20,442

Grade 10 81,964 // 20,491 81,239 // 20,310 80,897 // 20,225 81,555 // 20,387 82,490 // 20,623

Grade 11 78,554 // 19,639 77,350 // 19,338 77,920 // 19,480 77,281 // 19,321 77,791 // 19,448

Grade 12 71,746 // 17,937 72,980 // 18,245 72,990 // 18,248 74,832 // 18,708 74,064 // 18,516

12+/Adult 472 // 118 738 // 185 960 // 240 704 // 176 878 // 220

Total 1,047,187 // 261,797 1,046,828 // 261,707 1,047,617 // 261,905 1,047,890 // 261,973 1,041,557 // 260,390

Enrollment numbers are as reported by the Indiana Department of Education.

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Statistical Ratio:


In Marion County:


Total student enrollment was: 168,745*

Students dealing with bullying across Marion County: 42,186* The IDOE currently lists 346 schools in Marion County for 2011/2012 school year.

* “This is not a complete number because there are eight charter schools that did not provide the IDOE with their

2009/2010 student enrollment numbers.


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Statistics on Bullying 2009 – 2010 and 2011 - 2012

Statistical Ratio:

The following shows the total student enrollment, as reported to the IDOE, for Indianapolis’s eleven

school districts and the approximate number of students who dealt with bullying in that district during the

school year of 2009/2010 and 2011/2012 which shows comparison.

2009 / 2010 2011 / 2012

Students Appx. Students Appx.

School Enrolled Bullied Enrolled Bullied

IPS 33,372 8,343 31,998 8,000 Decrease 1,374 / 343

Wayne Township 15,808 3,952 16,277 4,070 Increase 469 / 118

Lawrence Township 15,767 3,942 14,878 3,720 Decrease 889 / 222

Perry Township 14,416 3,604 14,448 3,612 Increase 32 / 8

Warren Township 11,957 2,989 11,899 2,975 Decrease 58 / 14

Pike Township 10,981 2,745 10,918 2,730 Decrease 63 / 15

Washington Township 10,670 2,668 11,194 2,799 Increase 524 / 131

Franklin Township 9,061 2,265 8,478 2,120 Decrease 583 / 145

Beech Grove 2,417 604 2,734 684 Increase 317 / 81

Speedway 1,509 377 1,624 406 Increase 115 / 29


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Statistical Ratio:


Largest Public School District in Marion County:

Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) There are 66 schools in the IPS district


Total student enrollment was: 33,372 Total student enrollment for 2011/2012 is: 31,998

Students dealing with bullying in IPS: 8,343 Total students for 2011/2012 year is: 8,000


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Indianapolis Public School Corporation (IPS)

Student Enrollment By Grade // Estimated Number of Students Bullied

Grade 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012

Pre-K 217 // 54 209 // 53 215 // 54 545 // 137 237 // 60

K 3,373 // 844 3,212 // 803 3,497 // 875 3,295 // 824 3,384 // 846

Grade 1 3,748 // 937 3,408 // 852 3,297 // 825 3,165 // 792 3,165 // 792

Grade 2 3,359 // 840 3,339 // 835 3,057 // 765 2,920 // 730 2,937 // 735

Grade 3 3,090 // 773 3,041 // 761 2,981 // 746 2,827 // 707 2,756 // 689

Grade 4 2,796 // 699 2,850 // 713 2,843 // 711 2,839 // 710 2,710 // 676

Grade 5 2,494 // 156 2,560 // 640 2,600 // 650 2,594 // 649 2,694 // 674

Grade 6 2,504 // 626 2,331 // 583 2,368 // 592 2,382 // 596 2,423 // 606

Grade 7 2,682 // 671 2,389 // 598 2,209 // 553 2,297 // 575 2,270 // 568

Grade 8 2,602 // 651 2,552 // 638 2,321 // 581 2,204 // 551 2,162 // 541

Grade 9 2,351 // 588 3,213 // 804 2,338 // 585 2,071 // 518 1,882 // 471

Grade 10 2,494 // 624 1,913 // 479 2,682 // 671 2,786 // 697 2,303 // 576

Grade 11 1,936 // 484 1,617 // 405 1,614 // 404 1,699 // 425 1,738 // 435

Grade 12 1,611 // 403 1,416 // 354 1,402 // 351 1,323 // 331 1,337 // 335

Total 35,257 // 8815 34,050 // 8513 33,372 // 8343 33,079 // 8270 31,998 // 8000


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Statistical Ratio:


2nd Largest School System in Marion County:

Private Catholic Schools 68 Catholic Schools Combined


Total student enrollment was: 21,356

Students dealing with bullying in Catholic Schools: 5,339


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Statistics on Suicide

Statistical Ratio: As reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

Nationally:

In 2008, there was a national reported number of suicide for those between the

ages of 15-24 years being that of 4,298 across the United States.

The following is the ratio breakdown given from the CDC:

10-14 year olds = 215 suicides = 1.1 / 100,000 in this age group

15-19 year olds = 1,604 suicides = 7.4 / 100,000 in this age group

20-24 year olds = 2,694 suicides = 12.6 / 100,000 in this age group


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Statistics on Suicide

Statistical Ratio: As reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

Indiana:

Taking the total statewide student enrollment for 2009 / 2010 as the base number and

calculating that by 8.5* for every 100,000 then as a whole the state of Indiana can estimate

that 95 students would have committed suicide.

In consideration of the approximate number of students bullied in 2009 / 2010 it can be

estimated that 23 students may have committed suicide in Indiana because of bullying.

In Indianapolis it can be approximated that 13 had committed suicide overall with 3

having committed suicide because of bullying.

* Basing this on 1.1 for 10-14 yr olds plus 7.4 for 15-19 yr olds as calculated by the CDC


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What is bullying?

Currently defined in Indiana as:

“overt, repeated acts or gestures, including: (1)

verbal or written communications transmitted;

(2) physical acts committed; or (3) any other

behaviors committed, by a student or group of

students against another student with the intent

to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or

harm the other student.” (IC 20-33-8-0.2)


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What is bullying?

An attempt to change the definition:

In 2011 Indiana Senator Thomas Wyss and House Representative

Greg Porter attempted to make a legislative change in the definition.

That attempted change consisted of a constitutionally sound

inclusion of the word phrasing “digital and electronic

communications.” This was an important aspect for issues relating

to acts that fall under both of the blanketed terms of bullying and

cyber-bullying. Neither of these Bills made it through legislation in

that session but they will soon be resurfacing.


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What is bullying?

Having a constitutionally sound definition for any particular legislative Bill is

important so that those within our legislative, judicial and administrative

branches of government can make certain that those laws are maintained, held

in compliance and are justly carried out for those who reside in the community.

However, to put it more simply in this instance

Bullying and Cyber-bullying

are two blanketed terms used to cover specific actions intentionally committed

by an individual, or group of individuals, that are physical and / or

psychological in nature to which would purposely cause physical and / or

psychological distress / harm towards the intended targeted victim.


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Battery

Identity theft

Kidnapping

Confinement

Human trafficking

Sexual trafficking

Sex crimes

Photographic distortions

Robbery

Aggravated Battery

Hazing

Provocation

Strangulation

Hate crimes

Segregation

Causing Suicide

Assisting Suicide

Intimidation

Threatening

Harassment

Stalking

Physical assault (under Ed. statute)

Certain acts of fraud

Hazing

Criminal deviant conduct

Exploitation

Sexual battery

Criminal gang intimidation

Criminal gang recruitment

Destruction of intellectual property

Destruction of real property

Computer crimes

Libel (a civil actionable offense)

Slander (a civil actionable offense)

Defamation (a civil actionable offense)

Filing false charges

Retaliation

Computer hacking & other computer crimes

The following list of actions are ones that are chargeable criminal offenses and civil

offenses as labeled, or defined, within Indiana code and is not all inclusive.


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Sexual harassment

Repeated exhibitionism

Voyeurism

Sexual propositioning

Racketeering

Substantial interference with another’s education

Substantial interference with another’s employment

Harassment: “obscene messages”

Acts that fall within grounds of domestic violence

Telephone wire tapping

Fraud

The following list is a continuation of actions that are chargeable criminal offenses and

civil offenses as labeled, or defined, within Indiana code, and are not all inclusive.

The following list are actions that fall within the realm of cyber-bullying – of which some crimes

listed above also carry over into cyber-bullying and are therefore not mentioned below. This list is

not all inclusive.

Online identity deception

Electronic spam

Impersonation (a form of identity theft)

Writing negative or false information about someone

Outing and trickery

Exclusion

Happy Slapping

Sending messages to targets contacts to defame

Libeling (a civil action)

Sending a viruses to the target

Hacking

Using cell phone apps that are available to send

others text where they think it is the targeted victim.

Sending others E-mail from an account made up to

appear to be from the target and harassing others.


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Saying things to purposely hurt another

Repeated taunting

Repeated teasing

Being rude in a disrespectful manner

Coercion

Spreading rumors

Excluding the target purposely from group gatherings

Physically or emotional threats

Pushing / shoving

Hitting

Pulling hair

Throwing things at someone

Publicly embarrassing target

Grabbing someone in an inappropriate manner

Physically / emotionally terrorizing the target

Excessive destructive criticism

Calling target at inappropriate hours of the night

Invoking the target to angry outburst in order to get

the target into trouble with adults.

Lying to adults / others about a characteristic of the

target in order to get others to not trust the target.

Cheating off the paper, test, or project of the target

Stealing the work of the target and claiming it as ones

own work.

Destroying a friendship that the target has with others

for the pure enjoyment of watching the target suffer

emotional pain, embarrassment, and isolation

Calling the target derogatory names

Purposely withholding information from the target in

order to destroy the target

Following the target from one place to another in

order to intimidate, annoy, harass, embarrass and with

intent to cause hopeful emotional distress.

Purposely attempting to cause someone who the

target cares for, is friends with, or loves to not trust the

target in order to get gratification from the pain the

target would suffer from such a loss.

The following list is a continuation of actions that are described in more general terms

and are not all inclusive:


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Characteristics of the Bullying Perpetrator

Children who are bullies are often observed to display the following characteristics, this list is not all inclusive:

Impulsiveness Domineering Be physically stronger than others Inflated ego Have no remorse for their actions of wrong doing Refuse to conform to rules / regulations Easily frustrated Entices others Have outbursts of laughter at another’s expense Have angry outbursts Cuts in line

Calls others names that are rude Thrive on violent acts that are observed or experienced Have an aggressive behavioral issue / disorder Is often rejected by their peers Is put in isolation by peers and adults Shows signs of physical abuse May be going through a domestic issue at home (i.e., divorce, domestic violence, neglect) Lack parental involvement in education Failing classes


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Characteristics of the Bullying Victim

Children who are bulling victims are often observed to display the following characteristics, this list is not all inclusive:

Quiet Cautious about others Sensitive Often insecure / unsure of their own abilities. Become less assertive Do not provoke others in being attacked Unlikely to retaliate If one does retaliate it is because the bullying abuse has gone on too long. May become isolated socially Have bad sleeping habits Have bad headaches / migraines

Does not eat well Show signs of social and emotional developmental deficiencies Develop poor academics May become cynical if the bully gets away with his / her actions May start to believe that they deserve to be treated in the manner in which they have been. May start physically mutilating themselves Argue with family members badly May attempt suicide, and likely more than once.


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Bullying in Elementary & Secondary Schools

Elementary Schools

A time of social and emotional growth

Just starting to learn what various words mean

Developmental sensitivity

Worry about fitting in

Scared that they will not be liked

Want to show off so they can develop friends

Do not know how to respond to negativity positively (who do they turn to, how can they help)


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Bullying in Elementary & Secondary Schools

Secondary Schools

Growing into themselves - puberty

Jealousy issues become more noticeable

Become more aware of their own self independence

Worry about being liked, labeled, not believed when something goes wrong

Deal with not knowing who to go to for help

Figure out what they want to become and quietly hope that someone will help them.

Additional factors that also apply in college start applying in the secondary school grades.


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Bullying in College

Relational

Face academic jealousy from peers

Face problems with discrimination based upon characteristic

Will sit in the back of the class

Insecurity caused by others can lead to not asking for help on an academic question

Will isolate themselves in their dorms, libraries or other locations.

Will try to avoid working on projects with groups of others

Challenge the professor on having to do group projects

Issues from secondary and college can carry over into the workplace and in domestic violence.


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Bullying in the Workplace

Sexual harassment

Teasing / discriminate against another for a characteristic

Stealing ones work and claiming it as their own

Stealing other things (money, property, etc) and blame a co-worker

Call off work, show up late, eat alone

Not dress appropriately

Spread rumors about co-workers that are false

Fire a subordinate who shows great growth out of fear of having that person take their job.


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Bullying and Domestic Violence

Dominating behavior towards significant other

Calling / texting numerous times throughout the day to “check up” on them.

Screening phone calls, E-mails, text messages

Putting significant other on a budget and refusing to let them have anything more even if available.

Public criticism

Physically abusive

Emotionally manipulative

Past criminal history / psychological issues relating to PTSD (especially right now for military)


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