13 May 2019
School bullying "intolerably high"
An Education Review Office report says that bullying in schools is intolerably high and beyond schools direct control. Nearly 11,000 young people in 136 schools were surveyed and nearly half of primary school children and a third of teenagers reported being bullied. Deidre Vercauteren of Accent School Support at Victoria University of Wellington, casts some light on what's going on and what can be done.