Same thing happens here. Bullies usually get away with everything.

Me and my friends were bullied all through high-school. I got hassled alot for apparently being "Goth" or "Emo" because I painted my nails black and dye my hair purple, that wasn't so bad, but sometimes it would go too far. I've had rocks thrown at me because the bulllies decided I was "Goth," I've had death threats for it. Thing is, at that time I was a quiet, reasonable young lass who didn't fight back, so it wasn't like I was "asking for it." As for the teachers doing nothing about anything, at one point in school two of my male friends got rushed by about 5 people. I was knocked over and they both got punched several times. We went to the teachers, who responded by putting my two friends in detention. Where is the justice in that? I went straight to the senior dean who was a family friends and explained everything and got one who was the same year as me out, but the other dude is younger and a different dean was responsible. So basically we got assaulted and then punished for it. My two friends didn't exactly try walk away from a confrontation, but defending yourself doesn't deserve punishment. Needless to say that school has a massive reputation for bullying and the passive nature in which it deals with it.

*administers wedgies to the thread*

"Haw haw! NERDS!"

Wow, its actually quite sad listening to everybodies storys. I can't sympathize, as I've never been greatly bullied myself. I'm in Year 10 here, which I believe is Year 9 in Australia and 9th grade in the States.
A couple of kids pick on me, but I can handle myself, I can usually outsmart them, or end up making them bored. Its surprising, though, I'm bullying material, I'm weak, skinny, tall, lanky and geeky. In fact, as much as I hate to say it, I'm probably more of a Bully than I am Bullied. I do tease a couple of people, but they usually don't care, or just get pissed off and don't do anything, they're horrible little [censored] anyway.
I think most of it is that I have a large group of intelligent friends - meaning we can outsmart people, and I live in a small town and go to a school of just 400 people, by the time I left primary school, we were down to 70. When I first arrived at high school, people tried to bully me, but I didn't let them, I made them think I was, well, insane and they left me alone.

My advice for you, Schmuty (and anyone else) is never resort to violence. The only time I did, it wasn't hugely violent, in fact all it was was I poured my milkshake over the head of the kid who asked for it - I do feel bad about it in a way, but the kid finds it funny. If the kids keep on pestering you, tell the teacher/dean. Don't annoy them about it though, otherwise they might think you're just a tattle tale. My schools teachers are no-nonsense, and usually sort things out very fast. The problem is, kids don't report it so it remains a hidden problem, a lot of people just take it - I think thats wrong, you should tell a teacher, make them bored with you, or outsmart them with words.
And I'm afraid I'm going to have to counter the advice of going to the news suggested by Davor. One kid from a school in the area went to the Dominion Post about being bullied and although the newspaper went to the school and found out he was largely exaggeratting, word is that he is bullied even more now.
Oh, and make sure if you go to the teachers/deans, ask them to keep you anonymous, otherwise the kids will pick on you even more.

heh, Looking back on my middle school days I now liken middle schoolers to a pack of vicious soul devouring piranhas, feeding off of the despair they cause to their victims. At least this was at the middle school(primarily 6th grade) I attended, and while now I may have some social anxiety issues, in the end I am no longer remotely fazed by people who insult me(which hasn't happened in many a year, I always try to be kind and courteous to everyone this usually results in others being the same to me). I laughed off everything thrown at me in high school from 9th through 12th, and now I've realized that there is nothing anyone can do to me emotionally that can hurt me more than I could do myself.

There was only one time it got physical and that was with a girl in the 6th grade, I would be constantly attacked by her daily. I eventually got her sent off to the troublesome kids school we called Ramsey Street, but what confused me was the people who said "oh, she just likes you". If sending someone face-skiing down a rocky slope at the school track is how you show you like them, what happens to the people you don't like? do they just disappear?

I will never resort to violence, because I will get maimed and I'm not that kind of person to punch someone even when I'm (very) tempted to. Funny...I had milkshake (actually, it was flavoured milk) poured on my head once. It was meant to be a joke, but they poured a little too much and my hair was drenched in strawberry flavoured milk. Smelt like that for the rest of the day. I go to a private school (yes they are still bullies at private school. Not everyone believes the same thing) so the teachers will stamp it out quickly.

I hear they're worse than Public Schools, actually. I really hate violence, and the few times people have said 'Wanna smash, khuz?' or 'Bro, watch out, Imma smash you', I quickly shut my mouth and ignore them for a few days. Mind you, its not easy to do that when you're in the same Drama group as them.

Just do a musical number in the cafeteria or something. Eventually you'll have the whole school singing about "everyone's just as good, don't bully" and you'll become the coolest kid in school.

I wasn't bullied much at all. Most of the negative remarks and funny looks were due to me acting like a complete idiot and deserving them. There was one kid on the wrestling team back in middle school who kept testing out his "techniques" on me on the way to the buses after school. Problem was, he was small and I was easily able to just drag him with me on my arm. It must have looked funny as hell.

The school district I was living was pretty bad right by Detroit where a bunch of schools were getting shut down and all of those students were getting transferred to my school. Bullying was hard to contain and the teachers didn't care very much, the only time they really cared was when fights would break out and they had to stop it. So I guess I can kinda of understand why it was like the way it was. My boyfriend was telling when in one of his classes 3 of his teachers left. With the popularity thing I was the outcast. The girl who wears black clothing nail polish and eyeliner lol so that is why they would say things like that. Back then I it was crappy that no one really did anything it is the reason why I dropped out, but honestly those people bullied me and treated me like that because I was "different" and they didn't really understand it. I realize that those people don't even matter anymore I am mentally stronger than any of those people will ever hope to be.

Worst I had to deal with was someone putting a key lock on my locker. I told him some choice words, then had a teacher cut it off. I then proceeded to get a cut-proof lock and locked his locker with his stuff still in it.

Really? I was never aware. But there is one school branded as the worst school in Adelaide, and in art class the put bullets in pottery, so when you heat it, it explodes...Anyways, violence resorts to nothing.



I'll be sure to try that out Then get my ass beat.

Plus, I can't think of any first world country where that wouldn't be considered assault (if it were an advlt doing it, anyway :rolleyes:), which means that if a teacher or whoever sees it happen, you'd get in deep guano.

An' its not good for da soul, mon.

This is why you need CNN and get them to embaress the Distrit in front of all the USA. I am sure CNN would not give up a chance for a great news story of this. All you have to tell them there is bullying going on, someone is ready to "snap" and they have a story on thier hands. I say contact CNN, tell them how Bullying in your District is so rampat that they really do nothing about it. CNN will do an investigation and report on it, and report on it.

Well I can't say 100% they would do this but it's worth a try. They have done stories on Colombine type incedents. Now it's time for them to do a story of a pre-school shooting and how it can be stopped.

wat

Anyways, I was only really bullied in 4th and 5th grade.The teachers didn't do jack [censored] about it, partially because his parents were rich and because he was bigger than 90% of the staff. And this was at a private school, with about 90 students across all grades. I'm pretty sure it was because I was friends with his younger brother, who was in the same grade as me. I heard that they went to a really good private school up in Indianapolis, and his older brother had to repeat sixth grade.
In all honesty though, I probably deserved it. In second and third grade, there was a kid that I bullied. MY friend was the one who did most of the bullying, and most of the time I'd just stand there and watch. I still feel really bad about not saying anything about it when I had the chance.

In middle school, I was bullied for about a week when 7th grade first started, but it stopped in about a week. Then throughout middle school, there was this pathetic kid who would always try to bully me.He was so pathetic that any attempts to bully me were just turned around on him. He had to be extremely stupid, because after I became about 130 lbs of muscle, nobody else tried to mess with me.

Really can't say I've been bullied in high school.

I also attended a very rough, middle and high school in Florida. We had metal detectors, because of knife fights.
Thing is, there are bullies everywhere, in all schools, regardless of location or status. I agree, one has to be willing to stand up for themselves. It's a lot like love.
If you can't find your own self worthy of loving, why should anyone else? The harsh truth is that the world is NOT a fair place. If you are not willing to defend yourself, why should anyone else?



To the poster who's children were being bullied off campus. Guess what, this can be dealt with favorably. You can now go straight to the police and file assault charges against the student who hits or beats up your kids. The school district can't interfere, because it is off school property.

I was a bully in elementary school -- not with violence but with words. I used to constantly make fun of people with a group of "friends." I'll honestly say that I enjoyed making these "friends" of mine laugh at other kids because of they way their voice sounded, the personalities they had or the way they dressed.

It was all a ploy not to get made fun of for the color of my skin and my background...something that happened a lot.
I grew up in a rich white suburban neighborhood and was one of the only 2 kids of color in my grade. The other guy was automatically in because he played hockey and he was fairly good at it. I played video games, and ran track and field -- an event that only came once a season at our school.

Long story short, I realized that the people that I surrounded myself with were terrible, terrible people and when it was time to choose which high school to go to, I went to a catholic highschool instead of the public one that they went to. I then hung around with the kids I used to make fun of on a daily basis.

Kind of ironic in a sense.

Thank you! Finally, someone who understands! I can't believe how many people buckle down and let themselves be the victim.

I haven't been bullied, just called names and stuff. Sometimes I got taken the mick out of because I have short hair. (I'm a girl btw, only one in my year with short hair) Nothing too bad, and it got sorted out pretty quickly by my guidance teacher. I'm not very popular with my class, my friend and I are deemed to be nerds and are generally ignored.

2 things.
1 Goth/emo is thrown around, I listen to metal I got called a goth. They ay its "goth music" so you just have to realise those people are idiots its like when a kid finds out a swear and throws it around.
2 thats a problem, someone picked a fight with my friend, my friend fought back, both got in trouble. The education system is just helping bullying because self defence is punished, its [censored] up.


I disagree, I am out of school now, and while I was there I took the passive route. And I regret it, nothing changes.
I regret not choosing the violent option, sure I could get hurt but them suffering would make me feel better, even if it accomplishes nothing but hurts them then its better than the passive route.
If I could go back I would change things, but from my experience the "tell teachers" thing dosent work, its probablly only said so the school has less issues with actual fights, looks better that way. Its a load of crap, and makes things worse, nothing is resolved and you just becaome a doormat.

When it is just one person, you can stand up to them. When it is an organized effort by an entire sports team, you are well and truly [censored]. I think it really burned them that I was a book-loving band geek from some loser poor family, and I was still better at soccer than all of those upper-middle class jocks with dentist dad's and memberships at the country club.

In this other school, for art, they do pottery. So these couple of kids bot bullets, put them in the clay, and when they put the clay in the oven (something like that. I don't know the name to it) to heat up and dry, it sorta...explodes.

The school wishes to maintain it's reputation as anti-bullying, which of course means pretending that bullying doesn't happen. The only times anything was done about it was when there was visible injury and it went straight to the headmaster who was a scary bastard and made the other cry before suspending them. And the news people don't give a damn until someone gets stabbed.


I recall one thing some nasty girls in my year did. They wrote on my form's blackboard that a girl in my form had a fat ass, and then signed it with my name. That was quite inventive of them, but the teacher saw through it. It amazes me the degree of spitefulness those girls were capable of.

Yea, i was. It was back in High school.. damn it was odd then, all those "Jocks" were literally bullying anyone who hadn't gotten in bed with a girl. Last i heard they all have STDs, and are in jail for [censored]...

This is why no one ever picked on me

Mamagato: Standing talking to tenth grade english teacher
GrabbyMcGrabbyhands: Grabs Mamagato's ass and squeezes
Mamagato: *Turns round, fakes with right hand, uses left hook, knocks Grabbyhands over three rows of desks.* Instictinve reaction
Mamagato: " DONT TOUCH ME EVER!!!"
Grabby Mc Grabbyhands has a nosebleed and the teacher runs to the desk to get smelling salts. Because I TKO'd him.
KId in row up against wall: " DId you see her left hook"
Buddy sitting next to him " Damn!! Mean left hook!

They go after class and tell EVERYONE what I did. Boys are afraid to date me. It's ok, most of them were idiots. I dated outside the school.
I did not get into trouble at all. Grabbyhands, however, got suspended. He also brought me flowers and apologized. I did not date him.
I also only meant to scare him, not knock him out.

My three brothers and I used to duke it out with boxing gloves. When we physically fought with each other, my dad would make us fight wearing the gloves for a full ten rounds.
We wore ourselves out.

In sixth grade I also got into a fight with a boy, we rolled over and over on the playground, and I punched him in the face. He hit me there first, it was only fair.


When in my 20's, I was sixually assaulted though, nothing I did helped. I was in a postion where he had me at a disadvantage. No one is invincible.