I was bullied in elementary school.
At “graduation” I was sucker punched. I - for the first time, retaliated - in spades. In front of all the parents I punched the bully in his mouth...his mouth full of braces.
Blood flew everywhere. We were hustled off to the office.
My mom was looking at me like I had been replaced by an alien or something. The principal approached us and said, in front of my mother...
“You took it for five years, couldn’t you take it for five minutes more?”
Administrators and teachers DO NOT CARE.
Wendell Middle, Wendell, NC 27591
508th of 760 North Carolina Middle Schools
Student/teacher ratio: 14.3
Number of students: 815
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:36.9%
African American:36.6%
White:20.0%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 52.9%
https://www.schooldigger.com/go/NC/schools/0472002825/school.aspx
The reporting here does not go into exactly why this kid was bullied. He did not fit in and there is an obvious reason.