re: Bullying in schools: were you a bully or bullied?

i was the strange and unusual ADHD kid that no one messed with.

the worst it got would be a "hey isn't it time for your medicine?" smart arse comment from the peanut gallery section of the class room.

I bullied a kid in 8th grade. I used to feel bad about later in life until I tried to look him up and found out he was serving time in AZ for child molestation.

do I have to wait 1O years for my apology ?

I meant you, apologizing to me


and now you owe me another one


meanie

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Fine. You have my pity. Are we even?

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I'll take it

I was bullied once in middle school. Backed down like a wimp. After that episode I never backed down again even though I was a small kid. I've maybe had 3 fights in my life. Just not into that scene.

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I was teased for a few months . One day I had enough of it and told my dad I was going to have to fight . He understood, next morning the guy who was teasing me had to go to the ER with a broken nose. My dad picked me up from school and told the principal he was proud if me to stand up for myself. Principal wasn't to enthused and I got suspended for 3 days. It was worth it.

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i had a similar experience. was picked on quite a bit. my mom always said walk away, but my dad finally advised me to fight back. the day i did i got in a huge fight and wound up getting suspended. i was shocked when the vice principal told me i was still in trouble, even though my dad said it was okay to fight back. how could this silly vp overrule my dad? i think i learned two things that day. 1. fight back against bullies 2. frick institutional authority.

Neither, and I really don't believe anyone I grew up with or went to school with was a bully or truly bullied by someone else. We were all somewhat capable of and willing to do some fricked up stuff in retaliation if picking on each other went as far as bullying, and everyone sort of respected that and had an awareness of it, so we sort of self-policed ourselves.

I was roughly 1 of 10 non white kids in a class of maybe 60-70 students in elementary school. Double whammy I was also a nerd (always A's) and fat. So I was bullied at times before middle school started.

I hit a growth spurt in the summer of middle school, I also realized I'm bigger and stronger than most of the assholes and learned how to cheat the system in getting away with things, I mean the quiet asian who makes straight A's does NOT get into any trouble, right? So 6th grade homeroom, some kid was trying to start shite and I punched a kid in the face, he was bleeding, and I got away with it because nobody would expect me to do something like that. Never got fricked with again.

I also caused another bully (honestly more annoying kid than not) who wasn't very smart to fail religion class. He always copied off of me and I had a habit of "boxing" the letters I write on the side, so I did just that except put the wrong answers down, let him turn in his papers, and then change it.

The look on his face the next week when he got a 24/100 and I had a perfect was priceless.

In high school, I always remember a few who "try to be the bully" and really I just learned to just stop caring at all. I didn't really do or say much when people try to stir shite.

I did my own thing, I had my group of friends, and went about my day. I somewhat chuckle that those "bullies" are all now working like $10/hr jobs, funny I ran into one at dinner the other night...he was a bus boy

Bunch of betas up in here