FIY: Korean elementary/primary school goes from 1st grade to 6th grade (8 to 13 y'o), middle school goes from 1st grade to 3rd grade (13 to 16 y'o), and high school goes from 1st grade to 3rd grade (16 to 19 y'o)
Proportions of school violence by different school levels (in %)
Elementary school: 15.2%
Middle school: 13.4%
High school: 5.7%
Aggregated: 12.3%
Factual survey about school violence
surveyed in 2019, 1 year apart, 3,720,000 people participated
2018: grey
2019: blue
Average: 0.9% (2017) VS 1.3% (2018) VS 1.6% (2019)
Elementary school: 2.8% ('18), 3.6% ('19)
Middle school: 0.7% ('18), 0.8% ('19)
High school: 0.4% ('18), 0.4% ('19)
Response rate between victims VS witnesses of school violence
Grey: victim, Red: witness
Elementary school: 2.1% VS 5.1%
Middle school: 0.8% VS 2.8%
High school: 0.3% VS 1.4%
(left graph) Elementary school & middle school proportion of victims damage from school violence
Surveyed every year, 71% of the entire population of students victims were elementary students
(right graph) Manner of school violence conduct:
34.1%: verbal assault
16.6%: group ostracizing
12.3%: stalking
11.7%: physical assault
9.8%: cyber bullying
6.4%: extort goods/money
5.1%: sexual harassment/assault
4%: forced errands
The highest rate is between 5th grade elementary school ~ 1st-2nd grade middle school
Often in the media, high school students are mainly portrayed [to be bullies]
In the past or now, rather than high school, when compared to elementary school and middle school,
the rate of response to school abuse or sightings has decreased significantly.
Once you are a high school student, you can be punished under the criminal law.
And there are those bloody entrance exams. Even high school kids who you think are playing during that time, would be preparing for the exams.
So it explains why in high school, the number of overt and covert school violence has significantly decreased.
Elementary school has the highest number of school violence.
In the case of elementary school, kids are still young, so they cannot distinguish between school violence and conflicts.
The students have responded that not playing with you because someone is mad is school violence, just like how someone fights you is also school violence.
That's why it is often difficult for teachers or parents to hold a class committee in elementary school to control school violence.
Eventually, it only gets worse in the later years of elementary school.
And their most upgraded form is achieved in middle school 1st and 2nd year.
Busan female middle schoolers assault incident
Incheon middle school student's group assault, teens sent forward to prosecution 
"Is our kid having the 2nd grade disease?" (T/n: it's a term used when kids get cocky and narcissistic during the middle school 2nd year. Some of those check boxes reads: "They think they're the best". "They're impulsive" "They can't control their emotions" "They're friends are more important than anything" "They distance themselves from the parents" "They are very satisfied about their appearance" "Their mood swings are severe" "They get very interested in sex and the opposite sex" etc.)
This is the time when they catch the 2nd grade disease
In 1st and 2nd year, you're still considered a Chok-beok boy (t/n: this term appeared because kids between 10-14 cannot be charged by the law)
Many of the recent gang scandals also explode in middle school.
Strangely, if you go in the middle 3rd grade, it is significantly reduced due to the effect of the entrance examination.
That's also why experts claim that high school students are rather quiet
It's in middle school that it's really getting serious, so you have to catch them right away
If an elementary school student in their last years is teasing, swearing, bullying, etc.
Physical violence will likely ensue from middle school.
"A classroom that caught the 2nd grade disease...Bruised teachers"
"The scary 2nd grade disease" was real
So even the frontline teachers, they claimed that middle school 1st~2nd year, it is important to flag and treat school violence issues firmly.
And personality education and socialization should be made more intense
original post: here
1. Me too I was a victim of bullying in my elementary 6th grade...ㅜ
2. Me too, I was bullied in elementary 5th grade, and 1st grade middle school..
3. For me I got bullied in middle school 1st grade and even high school 1st gradeㅋㅋ
4. Me too I got bullied from elementary 4th grade all the way to my middle school graduation..
5. That's right, middle school students are the worst. They also violate the teacher's authority
6. I'm a grandma now, but it was the worst in elementary school. The more you age, people start preparing for university entrance and get busy, that's why it drops
7. It was fine in my elementary school, but it really got severe in middle school, I've witnessed so many of them. Then it got better in high school again
8. It was so bad in the latest year of my elementary school up to middle school, even I got bullied
9. I wanted to kill myself over going to school in elementary 3rd grade
10. This is the truth
