“During the 2009–10 school year, 85 percent of public schools recorded that one or more crime incidents had taken place at school, amounting to an estimated 1.9 million crimes. This figure translates to a rate of 40 crimes per 1,000 public school students enrolled.”
Read more: Latest School Crime Report Deals With Greater Context…
On its website, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) published a statement calling on social workers to speak out against harassment and bullying.
According to the statement, NASW policy “clearly addresses the importance of the social work profession to ensure a school’s culture is free of intimidation or behaviors that can be viewed as harassing to students—including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.”
Read more: NASW Asks Social Workers to Take Stance Against Bullying…