Bullying-- Source #7

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When I first came across this soure, it appeared to be more of the same information that I have been finding. However, when I scrolled to the bottom of the site, I noticed the timeline of bullying. I feel that this shows the progression of bullying; it used to be a non-issue as no one really talked about it. Towards the more recent years of the timeline, there has been more focus on bullying.

Before 1970	Researchers pay little attention to bullying
1970s-1980s	School bullying remains a low-key issue, although a sprinkling of journal articles discuss the problem. Norwegian school and government officials begin addressing the problem of bullying in schools, but officials in England and the United States begin to focus on the issue only late in the decade.
1978	Norwegian psychology Professor Dan Olweus, widely considered the father of social science research on bullying, publishes the English edition of Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping.
1982	After three unrelated suicides by children in Norway, a Nationwide Campaign Against Bullying is begun in all of the country's 3,500 schools.
1990-2000	A string of schoolyard massacres in the United States — many committed by victims of bullies — prompts scientists, law enforcement and government officials to study the causes and negative effects of bullying.
1993	Olweus publishes his landmark work, Bullying: What We Know and What We Can Do About It.
Feb. 2, 1996	Barry Loukaitis, 14, kills two students and a teacher in Moses Lake, Wash., later telling officials he was tired of being called a “faggot.”
Feb. 19, 1997	Evan Ramsey, 16, kills his principal and another student in Bethel, Alaska, later complaining that school officials had failed to stop the bullying he was encountering at school.
Oct. 1, 1997	Luke Woodham, 16, kills two classmates and wounds seven in Pearl, Miss., after passing a note to friends stating “I killed because people like me are mistreated every day . . . . Push us and we will push back.”
Dec. 1, 1997	Michael Carneal, 14, kills three students and injures five others at his West Paducah, Ky., high school. He later says he felt that going to prison would be better than continuing to endure the bullying he was subjected to in school.
Dec. 15, 1997	Joseph Colt Todd, 14, shoots and wounds two students at his Stamps, Ark., high school, later complaining that he was tired of being bullied.
April 20, 1999	Columbine High School students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shoot and kill a teacher and 12 students at their Littleton, Colo., school and then turn their guns on themselves; 23 students are wounded. The 18-year-old shooters had been favorite targets of bullies.
2000-Present	Schools across the United States adopt anti-bullying programs; the number of bullying incidents in some districts reportedly decreases by more than 20 percent. At least 16 state legislatures pass legislation requiring schools to adopt anti-bullying programs.
May 2002	A study of school shooters by the U.S. Secret Service and U. S. Department of Education reveals that in two-thirds of 37 school shootings over the last 25 years the attackers had felt “bullied, persecuted, or injured by others” before the attack.
2004	Parents in Kansas and Connecticut sue their children's schools and school districts for failing to protect students from being bullied despite repeated complaints from the families. Parents in Virginia sue the alleged bullies of their child.
February 2005	Responding to a television report on widespread school bullying, the Indiana Senate is expected to pass a bill calling for statewide anti-bullying programs in schools.