Have you ever suffered bullying by teachers in school? ‘Want to know the statistics of students who are targeted by school staff and what you can do if you fall into this category?
It’s bad enough when your fellow students target you. However, when school staff, who are supposed to be adults, target one of their minor students, it’s much worse.
In this post, you will learn the surprising statistics of young students who endure bullying by teachers in school. Also, you will learn what you can do if it happens to you.
Once you learn these stats, you will be surprised to realize that this issue is more common than you know. Moreover, it will prompt you and your parents or grandparents to take the appropriate steps to gather evidence and conduct your own investigation.
This post is all about the number of kids who suffer bullying by teachers in school every year and what they or their families can do for protection.
Bullying by Teachers in School
According to the Better Help website, “In one survey, 45% of teachers admitted to bullying their students.” This is alarming!
Here is something you or your family can do to combat this insidious type of bullying.
1. Document everything in Detail.
If you’re one of the unfortunate 45 percent, you must document everything. And when you write everything down. Remember to use the 5W Rule.
This is especially important when you have a teacher who is bullying you. Why? Because the teacher is the person in authority. Therefore, any reports that they’re bullying will likely go ignored.
Realize that people will take the word of an authority member over yours.
Therefore, you absolutely must document the bullying in great detail. This means using the 5 W’s.
When you use the 5W Rule, you write down What happened, Where it happened, When it happened (the exact date and time of incident), Who was involved and the names of any bystanders, and, if possible, Why it happened.
Therefore, the trick here is to document in the tiniest details possible. Why? Because not only does it help you to keep your story straight, but it’s also admissible in court and in tribunals.
2. Bullying by Teachers in School:
Stay in communication with the school or other entity and save all email exchanges.
You must save all emails you send to the entity and those they send you. Always keep records of these things because it will show you whether they do anything about it.
Moreover, if they send you any bullying or abusive emails, you will have more evidence of their bias against you to present in court.
3. If you live in a one-party consent state, secretly record bullying incidences.
If a teacher is bullying you, I can’t stress the importance of getting it on recording. Now, this is assuming you live in a one-party consent state. This means that you need permission of only one of the parties being recorded. That’s you, of course.
Therefore, you can record the bullying without the possibility of legal consequences.
You can either use a digital audio recorder or a hidden body camera. Personally, I prefer the hidden body camera. However, if you can’t get access to one, a digital audio recorder will do and you can find them at your local Walmart or on Amazon.
Body cams, on the other hand, are only available online. Amazon sells many of them you can choose from.
4. Bullying by Teachers in School:
Take pictures of any bruises, cuts, or scrapes left on the body by school bullies.
Most teachers are too smart to physically bully you. Although they may want to and wish they could, most of them won’t for fear of legal repercussions.
Although a small percentage do use physical violence against students, the teacher is likely to let your bullying classmates do that for them. Therefore, you must take photos of any visible bodily injuries if you’re physically attacked in the bullying teacher’s classroom.
Why? Because the teacher can be charged with neglect or dereliction of duty if they allow another student to harm you. Moreover, you also have cause to sue the school if the injuries are severe enough.
5. Keep records of any medical treatment resulting from bullying at school.
In other words, if a bully in the teachers’ classroom hurts you badly enough to send you to the hospital, make copies of the records and keep them in a safe place.
Having these materials will make your case more solid and you can press not only criminal charges against the bullies’ but also file a civil suit for damages.
6. Bullying by Teachers in School:
Take pictures of any harsh remarks by the bullying teacher on your report card or assignment papers.
This is also important! If the remarks are too harsh, it will indicate abuse and possible prejudicial treatment.
Moreover, if you make good grades in other classes but seem to fail in the bully teacher’s class, take pictures of the grades on your report card. This will prove the teacher’s bias against you.
7. Get another teacher that you trust to go over any graded papers just in case the bully teacher gives you an unfair grade.
VERY important! If you know for a fact that you did well on a test in this teacher’s class and still get a bad grade, the bullying teacher might have marked a few right answers wrong.
Therefore, get another teacher you trust to go over your paper with you. Because, if a teacher highly dislikes you, they might try to give you a lower grade than you deserve to mess up your future.
Then take a picture of the test paper, circling the right answers that the teacher marked wrong. This will strengthen your case and exonerate you, therefore, securing your future prospects and life-chances.
Bullying By Teachers in School
I can’t stress this enough! You must gather your own evidence in cases like these. I won’t lie to you. Doing this will be tedious. In fact, you’ll need to put in a lot of hard work.
However, when you’re being bullied by any authority member, it’s not the time to be lazy. Remember that you are the only one who can stand up to this type of abuse and you have a responsibility to do so.
Not only to yourself, but to any future students this teacher may bully later.
In other words, you should never sit back and wait for the school to protect you. Because they won’t. Schools have their own self-interests in mind and they will only hide any bullying that happens in their educational institutions.
Again, protecting yourself and standing up to any bullying you suffer is your responsibility! No one else’s!
But Why Do Schools Ignore Bullying?
Again, they do it to save their own reputations. Moreover, most bullies are high academic achievers, athletes, or members of the cheer squad.
All this makes the school look good. Therefore, your school will more than likely only protect these students and find ways to lay the blame on you.
Sadly, in most cases of bullying, it’s not about right and wrong, it’s about who’s doing it and the amount of power they have. Therefore, again, it’s your responsibility to do your own investigations and stand up for yourself. You must be your own voice!
Bullying by Teachers:
Here’s some food for thought.
We know that bullying often goes unpunished and it’s the victims who people scrutinize and punish while the bullies go Scot free. Moreover, schools and companies sweep incidences of bullying under the rug to save their own reputations. That much, we also know.
Also, governments, local, state, and federal, refuse to pass more robust laws against bullying and mobbing. Why? Because there’s no way you can legislate human nature, even the dark side of it.
More importantly, bullies are experts at making the poor victims look like the instigators. Therefore, I’m not sure if we even should pass laws against bullying. And these are things I advocated for it at first.
However, the more I thought about it, the more I shied away from any laws. Again, bullies are good at reversing the roles and making their victims look like the provocateurs.
Therefore, it is because people blame victims and either let bullies off the hook or give them a slap on the wrist that I’ve stopped agreeing that criminal laws against bullying should be passed.
Think about it. If we criminalized bullying, a lot of innocent victims would end up going to jail or paying fines because the real bullies would find ways to manipulate their way out of it and place blame on their victims.
Again, there’s no way to legislate human nature. It’s impossible. Therefore, victims must be allowed to stand up for themselves and take responsibility for their own well-being.
I believe it’s the only way victims can successfully fight bullying and take back their personal power.
However, this only addresses part of the problem.
Bullying by Teachers in SChool:
Let’s Think outside the box for a moment. ask yourself these questions.
Why do schools ignore bullying and place blame on targets? What other reasons could there be besides to protect their reputations and their star students?
Wait for it!
Could it be to maybe benefit the mental health industry? It may or it may not. However, it’s certainly something to think about.
Due to the mental health crisis in this country, school districts and the mental health industry work very closely together. And why not? We do seem to have an epidemic of depressed and mentally ill youth.
Therefore, understand that mental health is BIG business and, like any other big business, such as big tech, or big pharma, it’s a money machine. A cash cow!
In fact, it’s only a branch of the healthcare industry and big pharma. Remember that public schools are government schools and school officials are elected officials. In other words, they’re politicians.
Are you beginning to see how all this ties together?
Bullying Continues to supply the mental health industry with fresh, new patients every year.
In other words, millions of new patients are made because of bullying. These are people who, otherwise, wouldn’t need psychological help.
As we know, the majority of mental illness, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders are caused by some form of abuse. And bullying is abuse. In fact, peer abuse is just another term for bullying.
Moreover, people who are bullied have a much higher risk of developing a mental illness and going in for psychological and psychiatric treatment.
Even worse, many end up requiring medication to regain stability.
So, should it be any wonder that corporations, schools and many other public entities refuse to properly address bullying and hold bullies accountable? Should it surprise you that they’re so quick to blame innocent victims?
Are you beginning to see the bigger picture here?
This is just a thought that I wanted to throw out there. And this should also give you something to ponder as well.
The 45% of people who are bullied by teachers probably don’t know to do their own investigations and likely haven’t been told how. This is a sad thing because, without proper guidance, they’ll only continue to be victimized.
this post was all about the percentage of people who are bullied by teachers in school and what they can do to not only protect themselves, but stand against this type of abuse.
Related posts you’ll enjoy:
1. Bullying by Teachers: 15 Proven Signs a Teacher is Bullying You
2. The Horns Effect: Bully-Induced Bias Against Victims of Bullying
3. Bullying Culture: When Bullying is the Status Quo
4. Why do Bullies Bully? 7 Reasons They Won’t Leave You Alone
This needs to be talked about more, the school systems in general. One, these antibullying policies most school systems have set up are an absolute joke. Two, I will confess some of these kids are out of control. If they can’t behave, I am sorry but they should become the parents problem. My kid did not get the best public school education he could have because of the behavior issues going all around.
But that being said far too often the teacher is the problem. They will make snide remarks, often question a kid’s intelligence and just never show any kind of encouragement. And then if a child is bullied and they talk to their teacher, half the time the teacher will do nothing. Many teachers also play favorites. I can remember in my High School, a female teacher granted fairly young but the male students often flirted with her….and she would flirt back.
I will conclude with this. How many of us can remember those two or three great teachers that really made us better AND remember those two or three teachers that absolutely treated us like dog crap. I don’t think PTSD gets talked about enough. I was never a great student and I often was made to feel dumb by some teachers.
I’m so sorry you were treated so badly, Randall. My heart goes out to you. Know that I’ve been there too and I feel your pain. I had PTSD from the bullying until I began researching bullying and writing about it and it made all the difference. Now, the bullying I suffered back then doesn’t bother me anymore and I thoroughly enjoy writing posts and books about bullying. So, I like to thank my classmates for giving me a purpose and a passion to write and speak about bullying. I also thank them for compelling me to reach out to other victims of bullying. No, bullying is painful when it happens, but it lit a fire under me to reach out to others through writing and public speaking. So, it gave me a niche.
And yes, some teachers can make the problem worse due to favoritism and bias. Like you, I have about 3 teachers who were wonderful and treated me the best. Just the same, I also had about 3 teachers who treated me like garbage. It was my 3 best teachers who made a positive difference in my life. I honestly don’t know where I’d be if it weren’t for them.