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"Fight back!"

Yup. Went through the same at that age, as a Catholic school boy in a Protestant neighborhood. Every day they were waiting, as I stepped off the bus with my little book bag, and school uniform of bow tie, white shirt, saddle shoes, and pleated pants. Every day a foot chase, and a beat down...until my Dad (a former Golden Gloves boxer) taught me the manly art of self defense. A single afternoon's dust up stopped it all cold. I bloodied some noses, and broke some teeth. Got punished for it by Mother Superior, but was never bullied again. Ever.

Too bad there weren’t any monks around to help out. Those punks, whether they were Protestants or Green Martianists, didn’t have any love to lose. They knew nothing about respecting people that they disagree with. A gratuitous beat down is no way to sell a point of view unless one is stumping for Satan. Good grief, even Jesus Christ said there’s a time to take a sword. I guess the nuns couldn’t exactly ignore it, but did they or their priest have any other answer they were willing to give feet and have walk?

I hate bullying, yet it seems that the need for kids to get involved with real smash mouth bespeaks the lack of proper attention from the older generations. Taking the law unto yourself because nobody else will. This shouldn’t be something children should normally have to worry about. Yet it is.