Bullying happens.

It will likely happen every day somewhere in Greenville County Schools. A WYFF News 4 investigation found that last year there were more than 180 reports of bullying on the district’s hotline or bully reporting app.

The app is installed on each of the district Chromebooks.

Reports were filed from 45 different schools.

The majority of the reports involved middle schools in the district.

While it doesn’t mean there was no bullying in the school, there were no reports filed at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School.

“Clearly it is an issue,” said the school’s counselor, Deb Blume. “But sometimes I feel like if we would all focus more on educating students about empathy and compassion, we might get a lot farther than focusing on the negative things that are happening.”

Blume is the South Carolina counselor of the year.

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