Teens on violence, bullying: Half of high school boys admit to hitting out of anger
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There are some troubling results in this survey released today of 23,000 high school students, including an acceptance of violent behavior by many students.
Here is the official release from the Josephson Institute of Ethics:
In a year filled with prominent teen suicides, school shootings and soaring homicide rates against youthful victims, survey data released today by the Josephson Institute of Ethics has found that one in three students (about 30 percent) say violence is a big problem in high school, one in five students say they do not feel safe at school and 50 percent of the boys (37 percent for girls) admitted hitting a person in the past year because they were angry.
The survey of 23,000 high school students was conducted by the Los Angeles-based Josephson Institute of Ethics in 2012 and released today. It previously released data in October of 2012 on some of the positive changes in ethical behavior among high school students. (The Josephson Institute of Ethics, a nonpartisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Los Angeles, created and administers the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition, a partnership of nearly 1000 educational and youth-
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