School Bullies

In Grade 5 I used to have a pair of shorts that made me look like a had a boner when I sat a certain way. It happened one day when I was talking to a group of guys and one of them just flipped and decided to make my life hell for the next 3 months. He spread the rumour around that I was gay and after that my friends disowned me, I had to deal with getting stuff thrown at me in class, my things stolen, beaten up at lunchtime until one day I got fed up and asked my parents to pull me out of the school. The kid that bullied me got sent to a special behaviour school where he was probably sexually abused and I went on to live a semi-normal high school life with the ocassional beating.

What about you guys? Any bad memories?

 

That's terrible. You should have simply stood up to those kids.

Saying "I'm not gay, I fuck your mom." should have been more than enough to totally disown the rumor.

 

I got in fights with bullies. I always stood up for myself and those that wouldn't stand up to bullies. I got in a knock down drag out with a boy in my class in 5th grade because he ruined one of my art projects and poured paint on another girl's dress. The teacher never reported it and the boy would never tell his parents who hit him. haha

I quit fighting in school during high school because they threatened me with a $1,000 fine yada yada yada. But no one messed with my friends or me.

 

there were only a couple bullies at my school and they pretty much grew out of it pretty quick. i actually ended up being friends with both of them; one ended up being quite possibly the nicest person i know by graduation.

when i started high school there were a couple upperclassmen who wanted to pick on me because i was the only freshman on the football team who didn't have an older brother or cousin already on the team to protect me, but i was generally respectful to everyone else and i made it clear that i didn't really give a fuck what the assholes tried to pull (it was always physical; they never attempted to damage me emotionally) so after about the first month or so i was getting drunk with them and whatnot anyway.

 

the school wanted to fine you?

 

me and the bullies went rounds and rounds until i earned a grudging respect from them. it was a long, hard row to hoe. i'm akward, uncool and lippy. i was also always the new girl. how do YOU think it went for me?

 

I had no idea how. My parents are conservative pacifists that never allowed me to watch or participate in anything involving foul language or violence. I just thought the whole idea of me being gay because some guy said so was ludicrous but I didn't know what to do about it. I started to pick up new tricks after my experience though. When kids picked on me at my new school I just joined in and laughed. Self deprecation is a foreign concept to kids and I confused them into admiring me.

 

nope...i was the bully...so all in all, good memories

except for that time i was close to being suspended for "being the leader" of some group who went around randomly beating kids up...those were deserved beatings, not random. so yea, i got out of that one and wasn't suspended...and somehow they bought that i wasn't the leader even though they had a paper which stated that i was

oh high school

 

Elementary and middle school I was picked on, some of the taunts were pretty creative, then Freshman year these girls who I thought were my friends thought it would be funny to harass me, throw things at me in the hall, call me whore and slut and tramp in the halls, loudly, yet they were the ones who painted their face and wore stripper clothes and had every STD imaginable..They stopped after a few months when I showed that it didn't bother me... There were incidents here and there, I was quiet so I just let them taunt and poke away, sure sometimes I would stick up for myself, but you know, I didn't feed into their games, they wanted a reaction and got pretty pissy when I didn't give them one... I always got trash thrown at me for some reason, I guess it was the cool thing to do... But yeah, fun times... It didn't really bother me because I knew that they must have been really unhappy in their lives with with themselves to go to such great lengths to harass me and try to embarrass me in front of others...fun times...

 

that always works.

 

It was a county wide thing to try to stop all the fighting going on in the schools. They made us quit wearing facial piercings after a guy ripped out another guy's eyebrow piercing during a fight. Blood was every where and so they started the new rules. If you were caught fighting you would be punished with ISS or OSS depending on how bad the fight was...and you would be fined. Which we all know was meant to hit the parents' pockets and in turn get them in more trouble at home.

It didn't really work. Kids were constantly being sent off and fined or fighting.

 

Yeah, there's no good in being raised by pacifists.

Laughter always works, never any use actually getting mad over it.

 

oh yeah, i once got kicked off the school bus for being a bully. i was walking to my seat and somebody punched me in the face, so i automatically pushed him and knocked him down before i even saw who it was. it turned out it was some kid 2 years younger than me, so yeah i got kicked off the bus and nothing happened to the kid

 

I never had to deal with bullies because no one would dare take me on for fear they'd get fucked up

It also helps being as athlete



Hotwater

 

i got ISS for lots of reasons (no physical contact) for what my friend and i did to this kid on our bus back in middle school. we taunted him, called him names, made fun of his family, etc...

 

wow, fitz. that's making me really sad.

 

I remember my younger brother who is four years younger than I got really shitty with me because these two kids were picking on him and so I stuck up for him and told these kids I'd kick their ass (I wouldn't have, it was all talk, I had rocks I had in my pocket I was going to throw at them..) My brother wouldn't talk to me for the longest cause he said I was a girl and I wasn't supposed to stick up for him and how embarrassing...

 

I can actually kind of relate to fitz if what he says is true about kids deserving it. I hated the kind of bullies that went for the interesting, charming but ineffectual and nervous geeks...they have no idea what constitutes a good human being. But there were some real assholes at school that sort of deserved what they got and probably would have done the same if they had the friends and the build. Maybe thats just crap, i don't know.

 

oh, i might mention that i got kicked off the bus a couple times a year for being generally disruptive, if never violent... so that may have affected the decision this time...

i remember we used to drive over this one bridge; the people in the back of the bus would literally bounce several inches off the seat every time... so one day i decided to see how many seats i could jump over on the bump. unfortunately i ended up sprawled across the backs of several seats and was unable to slip back down out of view before being witnessed by the driver...

 

i don't know, either. i wasn't there. but i'm assuming i had to be one of the assholes, because i got more than my fair share.

and it's FITZ! he's so cute.