The research focuses on the prevalence of bullying in certain public junior high schools in Texas and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) with a concentration on the teaching of character education as a means of addressing the issue to decrease incidences of bullying through the changing of attitudes towards physical altercations among 8th grade boys in the USVI. This research was conducted to determine if there was significant association between character education and the decreasing of physical altercations among this population. A post hoc quasi experimental design was utilized to test for incidences of physical altercations between the two school districts.