Susan Swearer

They worry that it's not going to...( change) anything, and then they worry,' Is there going to be retaliation ?' And so they just don't really have the confidence that the school is going to handle it.

Peers really influence the climate and the ability of bullying to kind of take place, so within the peer culture is this seen as something that this is just what people do ?'.

Well, what are they like ? and I'm like, they're a kid... They're not like some scary kid. It's just a kid. So I think that that's kind of a myth too. This idea that somehow a kid who bullies is the scary kid. More often than not, they're just a kid and they've made some poor choices.

I really see that that is the missing piece, so many families and kids... can't access mental health treatments and so they either don't know where to go or they don't have the means. They don't have the transportation.

We felt like within the bullying space there were a lot of myths and misconceptions, and things that we know as researchers that somehow seemed to get lost in translation.

I will never forget one kid( who) said to me,' I got in trouble for bullying and I realize that was wrong, but I feel angry that the school doesn't realize that I'm being bullied, too,'.

It's typically a pretty small handful of the kids who are continually perpetrating bullying behavior.

There are people who are seeing bullying in retirement communities, so it's not necessarily something that someone could' outgrow,'.