Tragedy
Brian Head, 15, shot and killed himself in March 1994 during his high-school economics class. Head had been a longtime target for bullies because of his weight and thick glasses. His father, Bill, subsequently successfully lobbied for a law that criminalized bullying and required schools to alert parents of bullied children.
Read more about this topic: Etowah High School (Georgia)
Famous quotes containing the word tragedy:
“Man, “poor player,” succeeds better in life’s tragedy than comedy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)