‘I feared going to school’: Bullying and teenage aggression in Singapore schools


About two in every 1,000 primary school pupils and five in every 1,000 secondary school students report bullying incidents each year. - ST Illustration

SINGAPORE: The torment began when she started Primary 1, and ended only when she left the school two years later.

New to a popular all-girls’ school, a seven-year-old quickly became a target of bullying by more than one group of her peers.

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