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We have written often about school bullying. For example, here is an index to a series on bullying of children with disabilities that we ran a few years ago. A new survey commissioned by the cartoon network found that as of September 2017, school bullying is still prevalent. The key findings of the survey of 9 to 11 year old students included the following: A large majority, 77 percent, reported witnessing bullying at some point. 1 in 5 kids admitted to being a bully. Only 14 percent strongly agreed that our nation's leaders model how to treat people with kindness.  The study also interestingly found that three quarters of 9 to 11 year olds thought that caring about others was important. You can read the entire 30 page study here. You can read the NPR account of the study here. A related story about stressed kids in the Trump era is available here.

Bullying in general and cyberbullying in specific often targets children with disabilities. We have had a number of series on bullying of children with disabilities on these pages. Some of the posts have dealt with cyber style bullying . Click on the links for further information. At stopbullying.gov , they have had two posts recently on the topic of how to talk to your kids about cyberbulling. This is part one . This is part two . Check out these posts and tell us what you think.