2. SOME FACTS TO CONSIDER
90% of middle school kids (grades 4-8) say bullying is worse than in other
grades
56% of K-12 students report witnessing bullying incidents
15% of absences may be due to bullying
10% of drop outs and school changes are attributable to bullying
More than 250,00 kids will be attacked each month at school
5. AS NAOMI SHIHAB NYE NOTES…
“To me the world of poetry is a house with thousands of
glittering windows. Our words and images, land to land, era
to era, shed light on one another. Our words dissolve the
shadows we imagine fall between. "One night I dreamt of
spring," writes Syrian poet Muhammad al-Maghut, "and
when I awoke/flowers covered my pillow." Isn't this where
empathy begins? Other countries stop seeming quite so
"foreign," or inanimate, or strange, when we listen to the
intimate voices of their citizens. “
THE ALAN REVIEW, 1995
