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A Staggering Number Of Young Teens Face Bullies And Violence In School

A report from UNICEF looks at how 13-to-15 year-olds are affected by all kinds of school-related violence, from gang attacks to sexual assaults to corporal punishment by teachers.
A new report from UNICEF looks at instances of both verbal and physical assault in schools around the world.

Fully half the world's students aged 13 to 15, or 150 million teens, reported that they'd been bullied in the past month or been in a physical fight in the past year, according to a new report from UNICEF. In addition, half of all children live in countries that allow some forms of corporal punishment in school, putting 720 million kids at risk of violence from their teachers.

Those are findings of a UNICEF report released this week, which compiled its

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