This article written by Mike Marsee is featured in the Kentucky Teacher (a publication of the Kentucky Department of Education)

Our annual report, published in October 2015, presents recent data on elementary, middle, and high school students' experiences with and attitudes about bullying during the 2013-2014 school year.

At our core, we all want to feel valuable to someone else. Bullying threatens to undo this fundamental human desire, distorting our own sense of value until we question our worth and potential, being slowly ground to the dust of perceived powerlessness.