I guess I lived a charmed school life. ( sock hops and ice cream parlors ) I never saw any bullying and only heard about school bus incidents from my children. They might tell it differently...I wonder?
I guess I lived a charmed school life.
I sure didn't and especially not in Junior High, that's for sure, and that was some 50 years ago... :-)
I was never sure that I would come home alive from school. People did get killed there and knifed and shot. We're not talking about today but 50 years ago.
Teachers got beat up, parents and kids did the beating. Saying the wrong thing or looking the wrong way would get you pounded in the hallways.
On my first day there (an orientation day, actually, the day before school actually started) a carload of Mexicans got out and unloaded a pistol into the crowd (where I was) and killed one person, wounding several others. That was an introduction to what was coming up... :-)
It was in Dallas, and you would hear about the rumbles there, too, at different schools, like you saw in "West Side Story"...