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Elementary to highschool college students who say they’ve skilled faculty violence elevated for 4 consecutive years to over 2 p.c this 12 months for the primary time in 11 years, an training ministry survey confirmed Wednesday.
The survey was carried out on all 3.98 million college students from fourth-year elementary to highschool from April 15 to Could 14, and those that responded that that they had skilled faculty violence rose 0.2 proportion level from a 12 months earlier to 2.1 p.c this 12 months.
The determine had dropped to 0.9 p.c in 2020 with courses turning distant throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, however it has since been step by step on the rise with the returning to courses, marking 1.1 p.c in 2021, 1.7 p.c in 2022 and 1.9 p.c final 12 months.
The proportion of victims was highest amongst elementary schoolers with 4.2 p.c saying they’ve been bullied, whereas 1.6 p.c of center faculty college students and 0.5 p.c of excessive colleges stated so.
Verbal violence was essentially the most frequent sort, with 39.4 p.c of the victims saying so, up 2.3 proportion factors from final 12 months, whereas those that stated they skilled bodily violence dropped to fifteen.5 p.c from 17.3 p.c final 12 months.
Sexual violence victims accounted for five.9 p.c of the full victims, the very best for the reason that training ministry started conducting the college violence survey in 2013, whereas cyber violence victims accounted for 7.4 p.c, up 0.5 proportion level from final 12 months.
A Nationwide Youth Coverage Institute official stated the rise within the variety of faculty violence victims was attributable to elevated sensitivity on the problem amid heightened public curiosity.
“Notably in case of sexual jokes, which was once shrugged off, is now perceived as faculty violence, and this might have pushed the rise,” an training official stated, additionally pointing to college students’ heightened sensitivity as causes for the elevated stories of verbal or sexual violence in class. (Yonhap)
