Assault should be prosecuted, regardless of age. Maybe if the trash who did what they did to me had spent some time in juvie, it would have caused them to think twice of ganging up on me.
Again, there is a HUGE difference between two guys fighting it out in the schoolyard, and having a group of thugs assault you. Please explain to me why what is prosecuted as assault in the adult world is explained away as "boys being boys" for kids.
“Please explain to me why what is prosecuted as assault in the adult world is explained away as “boys being boys” for kids.”
Two or more ganging up on one was never acceptable in my day. There was, however, a unjust practice of punishing bully and bullied as though they were equally guilty of “fighting.”
If a child is unable to protect himself for physical or emotional reasons, adults need to step in right away. They almost never do, though, and if they do, they fail to protect the bullied from revenge.