Disabled youngsters speak up over bully risk.MAINSTREAM school is the scariest place for disabled children and teenagers worried about being bullied bul·ly 1 n. pl. bul·lies 1. A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people. 2. A hired ruffian; a thug. 3. A pimp. 4. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. research. A survey by Warwickshire's Anti Bullying Bullying Chowne, Parson Stoyle terrorizes parish; kidnaps children. [Br. Lit.: The Maid of Sker, Walsh Modern, 94–95] Claypole, Noah bully; becomes thief in Fagin’s gang. [Br. Lit. Partnership showed that disabled youngsters are most likely to be picked on by other children in mainstream schools. The youngsters who took part in the survey said mainstream school was the least safe place for them. They said the places they felt most safe and were least likely to be bullied were special schools and leisure centres. The survey also found that 20 per cent of disabled children have been bullied, compared with just five per cent of children without disabilities. Name calling was the most common kind of bullying. |
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