Bullying -- Increased awareness, cultural changes make it seem on the rise, but it’s not, experts say

JournalTimes.com
Lindsay Fiori
December 17, 2011

Bullying has gotten a lot of attention lately, and has certainly changed over the years, but experts claim that despite all the talk about bullying, there isn’t more bullying happening in schools. The awareness of bullying has grown in recent years, not because there is more of it, but because there is more research, more involved parents, more definitions of bullying, and more.

Nan Stein, Ed.D., senior researcher at the Wellesley Centers for Women, noted in the article that “bullying is a convenient label,” and that school administrators “love to call things bullying because then they don’t have to get investigated or end up with a lawsuit…we need to teach kids more words instead of just using the word bullying as a stand-in.”

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