“Third graders didn’t do this in my day. Yes there were bullies. Middle school kids being the worse. Never remember 3rd graders doing this.
First place to look is the parents.”
Not only did third graders NOT do this in our day but even when the big boys did fight this story of thing never happened. Fighting was about being macho and would stop when a teacher or principal came around. The fights were not killing each other and putting someone in the hospital.
The girl fights that did happen? Oh yea they were terrible teachers hated getting in the middle of those but even then those were mostly hair pulling and slapping. Now even the girls fight like men.
““Third graders didn’t do this in my day.”
“Not only did third graders NOT do this in our day”
I’ve seen it happen as early as second grade, and last for four years. 1980-1984.
Had a kid transfer into the school at the start of second grade and from day one most of the class picked on him and about seven or eight would beat him almost daily because he was the “new kid”, the “outsider”. I tried to intervene on several occasions, but I found myself getting my ass kicked as a result. The teachers and the school admin were indifferent.
Ran into him 20 some odd years ago down at JRTC-Ft Polk, he was a Green Beret. He thanked me for trying to stick up for him way back when.