There are some students that provoke others and then claim they are being bullied.
There is a huge problem of tolerance being a one way street. Certain sexual preferences, religions, races, and political beliefs receive special treatment while discriminating against others both by the other students and the school.
Toss in athletes and being attractive sometimes receiving favored treatment both by other students and the school and it is tough to judge based on a short article.
And then there are the bullies that are bullies because of bad situations at home.
I took sh*t from kids after a move. I was quiet and small. They knew I was an easy target because I hadn’t built up any connections yet. All of them were from troubled homes in one way or another.
I put up with it for years until middle school - on the way home they pushed to far and I literally kicked the front teeth out of one of them after blacking out in a rage.
Never had a problem again. The guy I kicked and I ended up ok friends, not great, but ok.