On the first day of school during Cait Haynes’ junior year, her teacher asked students to go around the room and rattle off their names. “What we know about bullying is it’s not just that one-on-one interaction,” said Adam Collins, the Colorado education department’s statewide bullying prevention manager. If children haven’t processed all their trauma, Collins said, it follows them to school and can encourage more bullying. During the last school year, bullying ranked as the second-biggest concern, with 2,673 bullying reports passed along to Safe2Tell. Students learn the difference between conflicts and bullying — bullying is anchored in an “imbalance of power,” Haynes said, with harassment or assault that is often, but not always, repeated.

Source: Daily Sun January 09, 2026 17:27 UTC