Posted on 01/16/2025 10:39:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
1) Leave the school. This is your best option. It may be the only good option.
2) Bring a weapon and cause serious, unprovoked damage on the person who has been bullying you. People will fear you.
3) DON’T go the the teaching staff. They will victimize you worse than the bully has been victimizing you, and they will make sure to protect the bully.
Bullies are cowards.
From what I have read lately, the teachers have been complicit in some cases. Not surprising, when the quality of education, including that of education majors, is on the skids.
anectodal...one of a couple of incidenets....my daughter is an associate principal in a texas h.s.
she was sent in blind as the “cooler” in a teacher student confrontation over the use of a cell-phone.
The student nailed my daughter with a juice box\soft drink. Then got slapped.
Turns out, most of the students think my daughter is fair and cool.
Students, outside of school, tuned up the kid who tried to tune up my daughter.
The kid was sent to an alternative school. No charges brought as the Schools Sup didn’t believe in it for the kids.
“Bullies are cowards”
You better believe they are......back in the dark ages, I being of smaller stature found that usually one direct punch to the solar plexus, in front of a group if possible, usually put a stop to that shit.
In front of a group of other kids for two reasons:
1. It embarrasses the hell out of the bully and probably some of his buddies witness it...ever notice bullies always need backup?
2. The other kids carry news of the incident all over school....that pretty much ensures other would be bullies think twice.
It only took a couple of altercations and I never had any more problems with thst jackassery.
Do what Opa told us:
“Always Lead with your Left”
Teachers help bullied victims the way Biden helps Hamas-bullied Israel, meaning they/he make sure the bullies win.
When I was in public school (seventh grade) I was beaten up by a bully constantly.
I had a plan.
I waited until the very last day of school.
I then approached the bully and started taunting him—calling him every name in the book.
He beat me to a bloody pulp.
When I got home I was a bloody mess.
I said to my parents “if you don’t send me to private school these bullies will kill me”.
My plan worked!
It depends on the race and sex of the participants what one can do.
1) Pop ‘em in the nose.
End.
Retired public urban high school teacher here. Permit me to comment on your suggestions.
“Leave the school.”
I have suggested that on more than one occasion, for the reasons mentioned below. Things like group counseling, etc. rarely worked.
“Bring a weapon…”
That might have worked in the old days. But the bullying I saw in the city was always a group activity. The victim stands up to the bully. Then the bully gets ambushed on the bus, or on the way home.
“DON’T go the the teaching staff. ”
I can only speak to my own experience. I never once met a teacher who wasn’t angered by bullying. It made us sick. But the administrators were a different story.
I worked with maybe 100 different administrators over the course of my career. No more than a handful took bullying seriously. The rest were way more concerned with statistics. Gotta keep suspension rates low! That’s how they get bonuses and promotions.
So bullies are “counseled”, and sent right back to class. The administrators of course never call the police. That’s bad publicity for the district.
My advice to the parents of a bullied child: Immediately sent an email to the principal to start a paper trail. Contact the local police. Do NOT bother with the school police. Know however, that the bullies will probably retaliate.
That’s why your #1 is unfortunately so important.
And contact a lawyer. Sue the crap out of the school district. Too many parents just decide to let that go. They shouldn’t.
(Sorry for the length of this post. How bullies get away with so much - it’s a sore spot with me.)
None of the kids I bullied growing up did anything bad to themselves.
Only 1 way to handle a bully. You use whatever advantage you need and beat them half to death.
I did this in 4th grade to a notorious bully, using a 5 ft galvanized steel pipe. I beat him pretty badly. They were talking about involving law enforcement but nothing ever happened... except:
He made it a point to warn other would-be bullies that leaving me alone was the smarter option. I never had any more problems.
Walk behind the bully, tap him on the shoulder, when he turns land a good haymaker right on the nose .
Worked for Ukraine.
Worked for Poland 1938.
Worked for....nobody. Nobody will help you. Get mad, get mean, train, then take them out. Or wimper and be their betch.
Sorry. Huge error 1/3 the way down in my post #13. It should read:
Then the VICTIM gets ambushed on the bus, or on the way home.
Fight!
I’ve lost more than I won, but anybody that saw me fight or fought with me, never wanted to do it again.
Nobody ever walked away unscathed.
Most intelligent people stay away.
It is the stupid ones you have to worry about,
as there is one one cure for stupidity, DEATH!
My bully was consistently punching me in the back on the way to gym class. One day at the top of the stairs, I turned around and gave him all 105 pounds of me to his jaw. He went flying. Never had a problem after.
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