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Bullying in schools

EDITOR,--I agree with Vidya Rao that schools should be encouraged to tackle bullying.¹ In my clinical experience, however, parents have not necessarily already taken the matter up with the school. Many parents have not even known that their child was being bullied, and those who have approached the school have often had the response, "We don't have bullying in this school."

Schools can do much to reduce bullying. In Norway a national campaign was mounted after three children committed suicide as a result of bullying. A number of measures at the school, class, and individual levels were used. The frequency of bully-victim problems decreased by half during the following two years.² Rates of truancy and antisocial behaviours in general also dropped, and pupils' satisfaction with school life improved. In Britain the Department of Education's Sheffield bullying project evaluated a similar intervention programme. The results of this were published . . . [Full text of this article]

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