Lumutqueen
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Couldn’t be more jealous!
And now for some good news.
The number of children who have experienced bullying recently have dropped markedly from between 20-33 % in 2008 to around 5 % today.
That is very attributable to the initiative started by Mary Foundation and which has now been implemented by law in Danish schools and kindergartens.
That is all schools and kindergartens must have an active policy to deal with bullying and social isolation and that has now been adopted in various forms. (And indeed that been exported to not least China and Japan as part of ready-to-use institutions.)
These results means that DK today belong at the top of countries we compared ourselves with in regards to how few children experience bullying or social isolation.
However, 5 % is still too many. Roughly equivalent to one pupil per class (or room in kindergartens.)
The aim is to reduce children who experience bullying or isolation to around 2 %. Eradicate it completely is perhaps a little unrealistic.
Mary was asked to comment on the main news tonight and she was delighted with the positive figures, but pointed out that preventing bullying and social isolation is an ongoing, continuous process.
Bullying is an ongoing problem around the world and one can only hope that the Australians will continue to spread this wonderful program into ever more countries.