Reporter Remembers Being Bullied Before It Was a 'Thing'
Interesting article today in the L.A. Watts Times by reporter Jennifer Bihm. As someone who was repeatedly bullied during high school in the 1980s, she writes about how her personal experiences predated the moment when this general topic became a “thing.”
She’s right. Ron Avi Astor, a professor of social work at USC, chimes in with the tragic, watershed moment that finally helped focus national media attention on the bullying issue:
“The United States really only started doing research on it [bullying] after the Columbine shootings,” he explained… Since then, he said, awareness of the problem has grown dramatically.
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