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The growing problem of bullying by mobile phone, email or social networking websites

(11/10/2010)

According to a 2009 study of 15,000 children by the National Centre for Social Research, cyber-bullying is now as common as name-calling among teenagers with some pupils reporting suffering from threats of violence and being ‘frozen out’ by friends. It can also have a significant effect on learning potential - the report revealed that victims often gained lower grades than others who were never bullied and many dropped out of the education system at 16. Professor Tanya Byron, consultant cl... [more]

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