Among students in grades 4–9, 17 percent say they are bullied, compared with 14 percent in last year’s report. Girls are more often subjected to psychological and relational bullying, while physical bullying is more common among boys.
Among students with neuropsychiatric disabilities, such as ADHD and autism, 27 percent say they are bullied.
“We see that children who in various ways violate norms or have different conditions than the majority are at greater risk of being bullied,” Frankel says in the press release.
The figures are based on a Novus survey of 944 students in grades 4–9.
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