There are different degrees of bulling. There might be one or two people who pick on another person now and then. But there is a type of bullying that involves a sizable group of people who feed off one another and they target one person. It’s incredibly cruel and destructive. It’s almost impossible to stop it because it’s a group against one person.
As an FYI ... I think Columbine-like incidents are almost always a response to the second type of situation, not the first.
I was big for my age in high school. I saw a kid in school getting picked on every day. One day a group of kids were knocking his books out of his hands. He would pick them up and they would do it again. I stepped in the middle and squared off with one of the kids. Without giving him a second I punched him in the stomach. He ended up on his butt gasping for air. Then got up and left. I saw him later during the school day and told him if anyone picks on that kid again I was going to come after him. He showed me the knuckle marks I left in his stomach which I thought was pretty neat. If I could do that in 9th grade then adults that run the schools can also solve the problem.
I was big for my age in high school. I saw a kid in school getting picked on every day. One day a group of kids were knocking his books out of his hands. He would pick them up and they would do it again. I stepped in the middle and squared off with one of the kids. Without giving him a second I punched him in the stomach. He ended up on his butt gasping for air. Then got up and left. I saw him later during the school day and told him if anyone picks on that kid again I was going to come after him. He showed me the knuckle marks I left in his stomach which I thought was pretty neat. If I could do that in 9th grade then adults that run the schools can also solve the problem.
I was big for my age in high school. I saw a kid in school getting picked on every day. One day a group of kids were knocking his books out of his hands. He would pick them up and they would do it again. I stepped in the middle and squared off with one of the kids. Without giving him a second I punched him in the stomach. He ended up on his butt gasping for air. Then got up and left. I saw him later during the school day and told him if anyone picks on that kid again I was going to come after him. He showed me the knuckle marks I left in his stomach which I thought was pretty neat. If I could do that in 9th grade then adults that run the schools can also solve the problem.