It makes sense that you wouldn't do anything about it. Generally, putting yourself out there will only turn the bully's (and his friends') attention towards you.

I only saw very minor bullying throughout grade school. Everyone was generally nice to each other or stayed out of each other's way.

I grew up in a time before there was any real concern about bullying in school, and I was both bullied and bullied other children at different points in my life. While I don't defend my actions at this point in my life, the bullying I did was primarily to ensure that the attention of other bullies was not directed at me

I may I have said this one time before, but anyway:

I think it was in early 2007. I was bullied for a while by a rather chubby guy for being pretty much the only one in my class without a cellphone, while also claiming that my family was poor (which was not true, btw). He was kind of a "famous" guy in the class, but his friends never joined him in bullying me. After about four/five months or so I had enough and literally said, though obviously in my own language, "Let's have a fight about it, then."

The fight was over in less than five seconds. I grabbed his shirt and pushed him head-first into a metal door frame. He started crying and yelling uncontrollably while some others called for a teacher to check on him. And that was it. He never touched me again and I was one of the most respected guys in my class for the next two and a half years.

The teachers dealt with the situation very professionally. Both he and I went to several meetings to discuss what happened, and also had a few meetings long afterwards to make sure that nothing new had happened between us.


As for me seeing others being bullied; no, I didn't see a lot of that. But the few cases I saw I usually tried to stop, either directly or indirectly. There was this one guy who only had/have one hand and therefore had to take a decent amount of shit from others though. I regrettably didn't do a lot to stop that from happening, but as time went by he later ended up becoming one of my greatest friends, so I guess it kind of solved itself :)

Being of Asian descent in a year of bout 90 people, with me being the closest we had to black in the whole of school it was bound to happen. The only instance where it actually happened was on a bus when some older kids threw a balloon filled with flour over me, I went mental and lashed out despite them being bigger and hit one round the face with my school bag, after that I suppose I earned their grudging respect and was left alone.

Of course there were cases of racial verbal abuse but I always gave more back, something like oh look it's chinky stan, with my response being well at least I am not failing school to live on dole like the rest of your scumbag family. Not showing emotion if he words hurt you definitely discouraged people a lot, just stating a comeback matter of factly really. I think people were discouraged or intimidated o actually attempt to bully me physically anymore.

I was never bullied. I was teased a bit for being the new foreign kid, but it did not scar me in the least or i never felt depressed about it. I grew up, learned the culture, made a lot of good friends along the way and never messed with anyone, so nobody messed with me. It is that simple, I don't know how people can screw this up and end up drinking bleach and attention whoring on youtube.

QFT. Exactly what happened to me essentially. Still get the looks sometimes, being foreign and all but no one starts any beef. What makes it even worse is the fact that the person in question is not even fucking foreign, just emotionally weak amongst her own people.

Nope never been bullied. I was pretty well liked through school and never really noticed anybody getting picked on. The only time I remember seeing someone get picked on was when I was in middle school. Some kid was throwing rocks at another kid, I told him to stop. He just looked at me and threw another rock at him so I threw the kid on the ground by the throat, didn't punch him, just trying to make a point. He cried and left. Can't remember anybody else getting picked on. Friends would pick on friends but you know how that is, more of a bromance type thing.

in my day if you punched a bully in the face pretty quickly it was all over,what with the 24hr media of all forms and social websites,i feel for the younger ones that get caught up in it all as it really is all meaningless when you get to your 40's and turn into your parents mostly kick back and put your comfy slippers on

All bullies should be sent to prison where they can learn the art of payback!!!

Isn't that considered bullying?