{"id":9388,"date":"2012-06-26T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2012-06-26T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:15:52","slug":"how-bullying-temporarily-disappeared-from-alachua-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/26\/how-bullying-temporarily-disappeared-from-alachua-county-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bullying (Temporarily) Disappeared From Alachua County Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9389\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 264px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/26\/how-bullying-temporarily-disappeared-from-alachua-county-schools\/showmethebullies\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9389\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9389\" title=\"ShowMeTheBullies\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/ShowMeTheBullies-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/ShowMeTheBullies-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/ShowMeTheBullies.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">WeKnowMemes.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s hard to know where the bullies are based on the data.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2009 Alachua County schools reported 182 cases of bullying. In 2008 the number was 101.<\/p>\n<p>But bullying disappeared from Alachua County schools in 2010-2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/pub?key=0Av06TaO9jXYrdHN6LUVoQTd0VVI3Nlgyb0U1RVNFYUE&amp;output=html\">according to state data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, 143 bullying incidents were not reported to the state because of a glitch with the school district\u2019s new computer system, said district spokeswoman Jackie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>With the mistake, Alachua County school district was the largest of Florida\u2019s 10 districts to report no bullying in 2010-2011.<\/p>\n<p>With the mistake corrected, Alachua County schools had the fourth-highest rate of bullying in the state \u2013 with one case for every 192 students. That\u2019s more than twice the state average rate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The dropped data is just one reason why it\u2019s hard to pin down <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/25\/explaining-why-its-hard-to-know-whether-bullying-is-a-growing-problem-in-florida-schools\/\">just how big a problem bullying<\/a> is in Florida schools \u2013 and whether the problem is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the glitch has been fixed and the bullying data corrected.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 13,000 student Flagler County school district is now the largest Florida district to report no bullying. We tried to confirm the data with Flagler County schools, but efforts to reach school officials were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009 Alachua County schools reported 182 cases of bullying. In 2008 the number was 101. But bullying disappeared from Alachua County schools in 2010-2011, according to state data. Except that it didn\u2019t. Instead, 143 bullying incidents were not reported to the state because of a glitch with the school district\u2019s new computer system, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1095,193],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}