Teach your kid how to defend themselves.....I was bullied too and I took on 2 big fat boys when they were waiting for me to step off the bus. I was about this age of 7, and I remember I was so fed up, I dropped all my crap and I pushed both of these boys to the ground.
Next time I saw them, one of them asked me to dance at a school function.
My son has hemophila and early on, he and I took Tai Kan Do together. There was a kid in 8th grade, a minority (Black) who decided my son was an easy mark. After a couple of incidents, I asked my son when he could use his training. He repeated the rules, "To Defend my Self, To Defend my Family and To Defend my country.", his eyes lit up and the next day, I had a call from the school about the teachers having to extract the black kid's head from where Jack had jammed it between the seat and back of a chair.
They blamed Jack, even though they admitted that the black kid had attacked him.
The next day, they called and said that Jack had thrown him across the room onto a table. Again, the black kid had attacked him, trying to hit him from behind with a stack off books...but they were "only paper backs".
I told the teachers that I would have a talk with Jack and advise him to stop pulling his punches if he was attacked again.
Jack was never attacked again and the teachers thought that I was a barbarian.
“Next time I saw them, one of them asked me to dance at a school function.”
I hope you’re a girl. Otherwise you may have kicked his butt a little too much. :)