Bullying has escalated to affect up to 160,000 students who reported staying home from school every day because they were afraid of being bullied (www. stompoutbullying .org). Bullying not only prevents you from wanting to go to school, but also makes you feel anxious, unsafe and unhappy at school, isolated and sometimes severely depressed (Young, Shin Kim and Leventhal). Schools need to have better resources available to students; this includes the victim and the bully. The victim should receive both better counseling and stronger laws to protect them. Bullies also need counseling due to research stating that “many bullies tend to come from families where parents are more physically/emotionally aggressive or where other family problems exist” (Schwartz, Dodge, Petit, & Bates) and stricter laws also protect against neglect or abuse within one's family. Better protection and counseling must be applied to help stop bullying because it causes emotional and psychological damage to victims. Bullying has always been present in schools. The Korean scholar Hyojin Koo wrote of a twelve-year-old boy at King's School, Cambridge, who died as a result of bullying in 1885. Later a former student of the school wrote: “The favorite habit of some of the older boys was to join arms and rush down the long corridor at the top of their speed, and woe betide any unfortunate youth” (quoted in Ibid p.7). Insults, teasing and violence were considered part of a normal childhood. “The first scientific paper on bullying was published in 1897, when Norwegian researcher Fredric Burkes “Teasing and Bullying/ explored why children bully, what effects bullying had on victims, and how bull...... half of the document ..... .int."Some facts about suicide and depression." American Association of Suicidology. American Association of Suicidology, June 29, 2010. Web. July 27, 2011. .Star-Ledger, Saed Hindash/The and Matt Friedman. "New Jersey Governor Christie Approves Toughest Anti-Bullying Law in Country | NJ.com." New Jersey Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - NJ.com. Statehouse Bureau, January 7, 2011. Web. July 25, 2011. .Wolke, Dietor, comp. "Bullying can lead to mental illness, says Study - Education News, Education - The Independent." Bullying can lead to mental illness, study says (2009). The Independent: Education news. Network. July 27 2011. .