First of all, beating with rocks and sticks is not bullying, it is assault.
Five years old?!?!?!?!?
Maybe Yeats was right. The centre cannot hold.
“First of all, beating with rocks and sticks is not bullying, it is assault.”
It’s not assault. It’s battery. Assault is the swing and miss, or the squaring off and menacing. Battery is completing the assault.