Historical Context
Bullying is not a new issue that has recently popped up. Bullying has been a critical issue in schools for decades.According to Tamietti (2014): “Looking back to the 18th century peer-on-peer harassment was just as commonly seen as it is today.” There is not necessarily a time where bullying started. I believe that in the 18th century people started noticing these types of behavior that was occurring during school. Although, according to Carpenter ("Dealing with Bullies"), Taunts, social isolation, rejection, gossip, pushing, shoving, and tripping were often dismissed as child's play or simply kids being kids. Bullied children were told, “Don't let it get to you,” “You're too sensitive … toughen up,” or that bullying builds character. This means that bullying was sort of encouraged because if a child was too sensitive people wouldn’t try as hard to stop this harassment. So bullying wasn’t seen as it is . today
According to Lee A. Beaty and Erick B. Alexeyev (2008): Bullying was not considered a problem only up until the 18th century. When a Norwegian researcher, Olweus, started researching about the behavior that was occurring in the schools of scandinavia. School officials in Scandinavia didn’t take serious action against bullying until a newspaper report in 1982 revealed that three young adolescent boys from Norway had committed suicide as a result of bullying by their peers. This means that teachers and school staff began to realize that there was something going on with the students within school. This also brought a lot of attention to people and created various school studies about this issue. According to Lee A. Beaty and Erick B. Alexeyev (2008): The results suggested that 15% of children in Norwegian schools were involved in bullying from time to time or more frequently. About 94% of the students were classified as victims while 6% were classified as bullies (Olweus, 1991).
According to Lee A. Beaty and Erick B. Alexeyev (2008): Bullying was not considered a problem only up until the 18th century. When a Norwegian researcher, Olweus, started researching about the behavior that was occurring in the schools of scandinavia. School officials in Scandinavia didn’t take serious action against bullying until a newspaper report in 1982 revealed that three young adolescent boys from Norway had committed suicide as a result of bullying by their peers. This means that teachers and school staff began to realize that there was something going on with the students within school. This also brought a lot of attention to people and created various school studies about this issue. According to Lee A. Beaty and Erick B. Alexeyev (2008): The results suggested that 15% of children in Norwegian schools were involved in bullying from time to time or more frequently. About 94% of the students were classified as victims while 6% were classified as bullies (Olweus, 1991).