I was bullied in middle school.
I grew up in a pacifist religion and my mother forbade me from fighting. She told me that if I got bullied I “should do what Jesus did and just run away”. I soon found that that was the WORST advice as the predators smell blood, chase you and then beat the hell out of you even worse.
While there are multiple ways of dealing will bullies I agree that fighting back is the best. However, if you have a kid who is going to come up on the short end of the stick in every fight I believe the next best avenue is a lawyer.
Many schools (and this is not as true as it once was) believe that “boys will be boys” and fighting just happens. When you bring a lawyer into it who threatens to sue EVERYBODY the dynamics change and the school finds a way to take the bullies out of the equation.
Jesus never ran away from anyone or anything.