Ridgewood NJ, with 20% of students ages 12-18 experience bullying, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s States with the Biggest Bullying Problems, as well as expert commentary.
To identify the states where bullying is most pervasive, WalletHub compared 47 states and the District of Columbia across 20 key metrics, ranging from the bullying-incident rate to truancy costs for schools to the share of high school students bullied online.
Bullying Prevalence & Prevention in New Jersey (1=Biggest, 24=Avg.):
- Overall rank for New Jersey: 4th
- 20th – % of High School Students Bullied on School Property
- 27th – % of High School Students Bullied Online
- 5th – % of High School Students Involved in Physical Fight at School
- 17th – % of High School Students Who Missed School for Fear of Being Bullied
- 7th – Cost of Truancy for Schools Due to Bullying
- 13th – Student-to-Counselor Ratio
- 9th – State Anti-Bullying Laws & Policies
- 2nd – State Anti-Cyberbullying Laws Requiring School Policy
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/
Just look at certain folks in Trenton and Richwood
That’s why I teach my kids how to fight. And they never had a problem.
How about parents teaching their kids not to bully in the first place? It all begins at home.
Bully isn’t just physical, it’s online, it’s verbal and even ignoring can be a form of bullying. Even at work gaslighting is a psychological manipulation by managers.