High Achieving Black High School Students Suffer More Academically From Bullying 

A new study, recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Las Vegas, found that bullying victims often suffer academically.  The data presented showed that students who had been bullied in the 10th grade had their grade point average lowered by an average of 0.049 points compared to students who were not bullied.

But the results show that the impact of bullying is most severe for high-achieving African-American and Latino students. They study found that black students who had grade point averages of 3.5 or higher in ninth grade and then were bullied in 10th grade saw their GPAs decline by 0.3 points by 12th grade compared to students who were not bullied.

The authors of the study are Lisa M. Williams, a doctoral student at Ohio State University and Anthony A. Peguero, a professor of sociology at Virginia Tech.