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Millions of Students Skip School Each Year Because of Bullying

Blog, FeaturedBy Justin W. PatchinJanuary 3, 20176 Comments

Over five years ago I saw a statistic that jumped out at me: “160,000 students stay home from school every day because of bullying.” This is a compelling and frankly unacceptable number. I thought about including it in a book that Sameer and I were working on at the time. As I started to dig…

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