The DepEd said that out of the country’s 28 million young learners in public schools, a total of 775,962 sought the assistance of guidance counselors during the period. About 8,000 of those cases involved bullying.
In the 2015 Global School-based Student Health Survey among Filipino children aged 13 to 17 or those typically on Grade 7 to fourth year high school, 11.6 percent of the respondents said they “seriously considered” attempting suicide during the 12 months before the survey, while 16.2 percent attempted suicide one or more times inthat period.
The percentage of students who said that they “did not have any close friends” also grew to 5.9 percent in 2019 from 4.3 percent in 2015.
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