The other 10% is a coalition of fat kids, gingers, and stutterers.
***The other 10% is a coalition of fat kids, gingers, and stutterers. ****
Back in my day being in the popular and accepted class meant you would not be bullied. Those who were bullied were
too rich
too poor
new kids
no kin in the class
weak kids
religious kids
sissies
mama’s boys
non athletes
normal kids not allowed to fight back.
Fathers a public drunk. (Bullies’ parents hid their drinking)
I’ve been to some schools in which the most of the entire class was kin to everyone else in the class, and the outsider kids caught hell from everyone.
The bullies were usually kids who were big, athletes or not athletes, who just loved to beat up on others because they could get away with it. You didn’t tell because you would then be considered by all to be a “snitch”.
Another kind of bullying was when everyone just shunned you because you were too poor or an outsider.
Even teachers could be a bully. When a teacher left the room she would call on the most unpopular kid to take names of people talking while she was gone. The kid was unpopular so if everyone hated him for taking names it was OK.
Now, most anti-bullying laws are aimed to protect homo kids. We never had that as back then most kids had no idea what a homo was. They were just “sissies”.
I know some people who have said they will never attend a school reunion because of bullying by the entire class even though they live just a few miles from the school.