Because he’s an insecure and vulnerable child. That is all that is needed. Not every kid is 6’0 and 270lbs at 8 years old.
Unless you are physically of beating your bullies to a pulp, they will focus on one child and ensure hus entire 8 hour day is a continual of bullying.
Ask me how I know this.
The most successful approach for dealing with a bully is to make it clear to his parent(s) that they will be slaughtered with a machete in their place of employment if the bullying doesn't stop.
Ask me how I know this. :-O
I was a slight kid and didn’t measure up to a lot of the other more “manly” 1st Graders, but I was never bullied.
I think I got an early reputation when I knocked the front tooth out of a kid who kept stealing the candy bar out of my lunch box.
I can tell you how I stopped this...
I’m the oldest of 4 by 6 years. One day during summer when school was out my youngest brother came home crying. I found out the neighborhood group of 8-9 yo kids were playing baseball down at the end of the subdivision. One kid much bigger than the rest (basically fatter) had bullied my brother. I marched my brother down the street and even he thought “I” was going to do something. Instead I ordered my little brother to pick up the bat and hit that kid upside the head. My brother looked at me with eyes the size of saucers, as did the bully. My brother was frozen until I yelled at him. He grabbed the bat and took one step towards the bully and I told him to drop the bat. I turned to the bully and told him next time he won’t be the one with the bat. No more problem.
All throughout Jr. High and HS I operated like that. Whether I knew you or not I didn’t tolerate anyone getting bullied anywhere in my vicinity. Since I was a letter jock that meant I had to get in the face of my friends and teammates from time to time but I made it clear if you bullied younger or weaker kids you were going to have to deal with me. I called myself a bully of bullies.
Now I don’t know why there aren’t kids that have this attitude today. To be fair about how different it is today, the world was vastly different in a small college town 50 years ago. But still, really? No kid(s) nowadays intervene for the weak and vulnerable?
I don’t even recognize the place anymore...