"We Don't Do That Here!"
The DON'T BE A Bully Project
The Don't Be a Bully Project is a social responsibility campaign that uses entertainment to combat bullying in middle schools and completely halt youth suicide due to bullying.
NWP's DON'T BE A Bully Project
"We Don't Do That Here!"
Bullying occurs in every school in America.
NWP's Don't Be a Bully (DBAB) Project shines a light on and changes behavior by presenting a 30-minute musical production - "We Don't Do That Here!" - to middle school students around the country. The production is paired with 5-10 minute classroom skits. The musical and skits are designed to reflect current bullying strategies and behavior, then show, real-time, how the behavior can effectively be changed.
The production empowers the victims, turns the onlookers into “Interveners,” and redirects the "Culprits" - the person(s) who are engaging in the bully behavior. The DBAB Project also creates awareness for teachers, counselors and administrators who may be blind to situations going on right in front of them.
Our first 15 Target Cities are:
1) Washington, DC
2) Los Angeles
3) Chicago
4) Atlanta
5) Philadelphia
6) Baltimore
7) Durham
8) Boston
9) Houston
10) New Orleans
11) Cleveland
12) Detroit
13) Phoenix
14) Las Vegas
15) Seattle
https://www.educationcorner.com/bullying-facts-statistics-and-prevention.html
About Bullying
Statistics
Rates of Incidence
(Credit: https://www.pacer.org/bullying/resources/stats.asp)
- One out of every five (20.2%) students report being bullied (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- A higher percentage of male than of female students report being physically bullied (6% vs. 4%), whereas a higher percentage of female than of male students reported being the subjects of rumors (18% vs. 9%) and being excluded from activities on purpose (7% vs. 4%) (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- 41% of students who reported being bullied at school indicated that they think the bullying would happen again (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- Of those students who reported being bullied, 13% were made fun of, called names, or insulted; 13% were the subject of rumors; 5% were pushed, shoved, tripped, or spit on; and 5% were excluded from activities on purpose (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- A slightly higher portion of female than of male students report being bullied at school (24% vs. 17%) (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- Bullied students reported that bullying occurred in the following places: the hallway or stairwell at school (43%), inside the classroom (42%), in the cafeteria (27%), outside on school grounds (22%), online or by text (15%), in the bathroom or locker room (12%), and on the school bus (8%) (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- 46% of bullied students report notifying an adult at school about the incident (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- School-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to 25% (McCallion & Feder, 2013 )
- The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students include physical appearance, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2019 )
- The federal government began collecting data on school bullying in 2005, when the prevalence of bullying was around 28 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 2015 )
- Rates of bullying vary across studies (from 9% to 98%). A meta-analysis of 80 studies analyzing bullying involvement rates (for both bullying others and being bullied) for 12-18 year old students reported a mean prevalence rate of 35% for traditional bullying involvement and 15% for cyberbullying involvement (Modecki, Minchin, Harbaugh, Guerra, & Runions, 2014 ).