...have increased in Swedish schools between years 2008 to 2011 with 104%, the newspaper Metro writes in an article.
According to their article, reports of bullying increases in the schools in Sweden and more schools are getting lots of criticism because they are lacking in their work to improve the environment in their schools. There´s also flaws when it comes to how they follow up the cases.
- The most common report is that students insults other students and that the adults can't make the insults to stop. The adults don't take the students seriously. They trivialize the events. The easiest is to think of the children as adults instead. How many adults would put up with being exposed to extreme offensive insults and violence, says Carl Gustav Sidenqvist, school expert in School inspection.
Since october 2009 its easier to report through School inspections web site. Students know their rights and possibilities to report, says Caroline Dyrefors Grufman.
Here´s the whole article in Swedish
And here´s my comment after reading this:
So, good to know more students know their rights and actually do file a report when they are bullied here in Sweden. Thats good news! But its sad to read that there´s still so many schools who doesn't take this serious and still trivialize bullying. I do hope it will change soon!