In the 2019-2020 academic year, the Education Inspectorate has identified 100 cases of harassment in educational centers in the Basque Autonomous Community, 12.58% of the 795 cases analyzed. Vice-Minister of Education, Begoña Pedrosa, presented the data at a press conference in Vitoria.

The cases analysed have increased in the last year: In 2018-2019, 755 to 795 cases have been increased in 2019-2020, and cases identified as harassment cases have risen from 96 to 100. If we analyze the data in percentage terms, it is observed that the number of cases identified is similar, going from 12.72% to 12.58%.

The highest percentage of identified cases occurs in Secondary Education, 63 out of every hundred cases. It should be noted that 25% of these cases have been carried out through the Internet, social networks or any other cybernetic medium.

The number of cases analyzed in the last decade has increased tenfold.

In the last decade there has been a tenfold increase in the cases analyzed by the Educational Inspectorate: from 75 cases in the 2008-2009 course to 795 in the last course. But those who, once examined, are called harassment, have not grown in the same proportion: It was 39 in 2008-2009 and 100 last year.

18.9% of students say they suffer ill-treatment at school

For her part, journalist Berria Irati Urdalleta has pointed out that 18.9% of students claim to have suffered ill-treatment in the school environment. The ISEI, the Basque institute of educational evaluation and research, has offered these data in a hearing in the Basque Parliament's Education Committee. 20.3% of boys have bullying and 17.8% of girls. 20.3% of elementary school students suffer from bad colds at school and in the case of high school students the figure drops to 17.8%.

More than half of the victims of ill-treatment talk to their friends and friends. The teacher and tutor interact less than their peers, as indicated by the students. Almost 10% of LH victims and just over 24% of ESO victims do not talk to anyone.