Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt

And now instead of having a prevalence rate of 30 percent bullying at your school, you have a prevalence rate in the 70s because nobody's fixed it.

And now instead of having a prevalence rate of 30 percent bullying at your school, you have a prevalence rate in the 70s because nobody's fixed it.

And now instead of having a prevalence rate of 30 percent bullying at your school, you have a prevalence rate in the 70s because nobody's fixed it.

Why? I go to schools where, and we do research across hundreds and hundreds of schools in Ontario, and some have low bullying rates, like 15%, and others have 70% bullying rates. And it really is about that. Is anybody holding them to account? And if you don't hold them to account, they will corrupt your environment.

Why? I go to schools where, and we do research across hundreds and hundreds of schools in Ontario, and some have low bullying rates, like 15%, and others have 70% bullying rates. And it really is about that. Is anybody holding them to account? And if you don't hold them to account, they will corrupt your environment.

Why? I go to schools where, and we do research across hundreds and hundreds of schools in Ontario, and some have low bullying rates, like 15%, and others have 70% bullying rates. And it really is about that. Is anybody holding them to account? And if you don't hold them to account, they will corrupt your environment.

Exactly. So think of it like, and I know you know this literature, but if you think about dominance, the dominance literature really tells us that when somebody wields power, we pay attention to them. We emulate them. And they don't pay attention to us. They are impervious to our signals of distress. They're not that interested in us, but we're profoundly interested in them.

Exactly. So think of it like, and I know you know this literature, but if you think about dominance, the dominance literature really tells us that when somebody wields power, we pay attention to them. We emulate them. And they don't pay attention to us. They are impervious to our signals of distress. They're not that interested in us, but we're profoundly interested in them.

Exactly. So think of it like, and I know you know this literature, but if you think about dominance, the dominance literature really tells us that when somebody wields power, we pay attention to them. We emulate them. And they don't pay attention to us. They are impervious to our signals of distress. They're not that interested in us, but we're profoundly interested in them.

And they also represent a really important socializing component in their environment. So they're socializing everybody who's paying attention to them in a way that we don't want them to be acting, right? Like we don't want this to be the model of our citizenship at our school, right?

And they also represent a really important socializing component in their environment. So they're socializing everybody who's paying attention to them in a way that we don't want them to be acting, right? Like we don't want this to be the model of our citizenship at our school, right?

And they also represent a really important socializing component in their environment. So they're socializing everybody who's paying attention to them in a way that we don't want them to be acting, right? Like we don't want this to be the model of our citizenship at our school, right?

Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. So we did a really big meta-analysis and I was a little bit surprised because if you look at, like, you just are going to think that there's going to be ethnic differences, ethnic and racial differences, just expect it. And we didn't find that at all for perpetration and for bullying victimization? Not at all. I mean, there's a little bit. At the end of the day, it's about numeration.

Yeah. So we did a really big meta-analysis and I was a little bit surprised because if you look at, like, you just are going to think that there's going to be ethnic differences, ethnic and racial differences, just expect it. And we didn't find that at all for perpetration and for bullying victimization? Not at all. I mean, there's a little bit. At the end of the day, it's about numeration.

Yeah. So we did a really big meta-analysis and I was a little bit surprised because if you look at, like, you just are going to think that there's going to be ethnic differences, ethnic and racial differences, just expect it. And we didn't find that at all for perpetration and for bullying victimization? Not at all. I mean, there's a little bit. At the end of the day, it's about numeration.

So if we are at a school where it's primarily South Asian and we're the only two white kids, then we're a little bit vulnerable. But if you're the only two South Asian kids at a white school, you're vulnerable. So it really doesn't have to do with one race or ethnicity, or it really has to do with who's wielding power in your particular school.

So if we are at a school where it's primarily South Asian and we're the only two white kids, then we're a little bit vulnerable. But if you're the only two South Asian kids at a white school, you're vulnerable. So it really doesn't have to do with one race or ethnicity, or it really has to do with who's wielding power in your particular school.