PRO Martial Arts Armor Program

ARMOR 10 Statistics about bullying and predators courtesy of the PRO Martial Arts Armor program. www.promartialarts.com/armor BULLYING & PREDATOR PREVENTION 1 in 4 100,000 Students, kindergarten through 12th grade, who are either a bully or a victim of a bully The number of students who carry a gun to school 160,000 The number of students who don't [2) show up for school out of fear of being 10% 2-9x [1) bullied at school The The number of times bullying victims are 56% percentage of students who drop out or The percentage of students who have witnessed a bullying crime take place while at school change schools more likely to consider because of repeated bullying suicide than non-victim [1] [2] [1] 1 in 4 Girls who will be sexually abused before the age of 14 [3] 1 in 6 3 out of 4 The number of boys who will be sexually abused before the 12% The amount of victimized children who are female age of 16 The percentage of child abuse cases that are actually reported [3] [4) (5] [1] BullyingStatistics.org, 2010 (2) www.ambassadorsforkidsclub.org (3] www.ambassadorsforkidsclub.org (4] Hopper, J. (1998). Child Sexual Abuse: Statistics, Research, Resources. Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine (5] U. S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics