People who have never been bullied truly don't do know the emotional and psychological wreckage one endures from being bullied.
Grades suffer, building friendships is hard, trusting people is even harder, having an intimate relationship, marriage, lack of confidence and I could talk all day about the fallout of being bullied.
Some people can put up with a lot. I put up with a hell of a lot in my primary education years. But others just can't take it. Everyone's breaking point is different and how people react when they reach that point is different.
Now, I've grown up a lot and I'm assertive enough thatI don't put up with it anymore and if I see bullying, I intervene. I don't care about their age, gender, size or circumstances or consequences.
I despise bullies and I personally have no issue with it when a bully is dispatched to their eternal dirt nap. If you play stupid games, you deserve to win stupid prizes.
Don't be a bully and karma won't bite you in your buttocks. If you're a bully, you're a pos, plain and simple. You're a few notches below Murderers, rapists, child molestors and woman beaters.
I hold thieves with higher regard than I do bullies. Absolutely ZERO sympathy for ANY bully who gets what they deserve.
I do have sympathy for the innocent people and families who end up being casualties when someone lashes out in the instance of the topic of this post.
Glad that you stood up to them! Intervention doesnt havent to be physical or violent. Taking priveleges away from bullies, isolation, detention, suspension and expellation should be proper actions to curb the behavior. Make these little jerks go to counseling, not the one being bullied.
But this is exactly what happens. A kid gets bullied, he/she reacts and now the kid has to get a mental evaluation, be put on ritalin, see a counselor...and nothing happens to the bullies and the bullying continues.
I had a day my 6th grade year, the teacher laughing at me while two girls across from me called me names, taunted me and laughed at me. I had already finished my classwork and was sitting there quietly minding my own business reading a John Grisham book. I asked the teacher to ask them to stop and she coldly sneered at me and said no. I said fine, turned around and leaned across my desk and I smacked carrot top right across her face. Turned back to the teacher, pointed at her and said next time it'll be you. I got 2 days in school detention (which I was thankful for because it got me away from those cretins) and the school wanted to put me in a learning disability class. My dad told them to go pound sand and if they tried he would pull me out. So I had to go to counseling and be put on ritalin which did absolutely nothing.
Those two girls didnt bother me much anymore, but the one I didnt hit harassed my mom at Wal-Mart about her body weight about 4 years later. I won't say what happened to her a few weeks later after it happened, but I never had another problem with her again after that.
The bullying continued from other students until 11th grade when we moved and I went to a different high school and I enjoyed a quiet and peaceful final two years in high school with no bullying, no confrontations or fights. People didn't know me there. It was so nice.
This post shows how clueless you truly are in regards to the subject at hand.
If you think a kid emotionally and psychologically ruining another kid's well-being is just "kids being kids", you need to take a long look at your life and seek some education on the matter.
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