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during school , i had a bit of name calling due to having large ears which i can laugh about it now but hurt at the time , just wondering if anyone here has any experiences with bullying?
being the youngest of 13 kids I got bullied plenty by siblings so I passed it on to schoolmates .. I`m not proud of that as I see some of them from time to time ...
I was bullied from about 6th grade until 9th grade.
I was a tomboy and a nerd, with glasses and frizzy hair, which I covered with baseball caps. I was an easy target, lol.
The weird thing is that I was bullied at random, by kids I didn't even know, usually in grades above me. They said I was ugly, said I looked like a boy, made fun of me for being "poor" (I wasn't poor, I was from a working class family ). I was laughed at, had things thrown at me and was regarded as though I were carrying the plague. Didn't even have a boyfriend until I was almost 17.
It was hurtful, but nothing I can remember crying over.
But I wasn't bullied hardcore like some kids were and are.
I have the feeling that almost everyone was bullied for some reason or another. If not for ears, then for being too short, too tall, too dumb, too smart, too fat, for wearing glasses, for dressing funny, whatever.
When I was young and immature as a young teenager in school I was one of those popular girls standing next to the bully and either laughing at what was said, or just pretending nothing was happening. At no point, at that time when I did that, did it occur to me that I was just as bad as the one doing the bullying. This all stopped by the time I was a junior, I would say, and I began getting much more mature. I did make friends with some of the people who probably hated me in junior high, by the time I graduated.
Very little, if anything, really was done to me or those I hung out with when we at our meanest. Thankfully, times have changed, and we are clamping down on this, because it is long overdue in school systems, though far more needs to be done.
Now, the onus is on the parents, not just those who were on the wrong end of it while they were growing up; but also for those of us who either dished some out, or casually observed it and thought it was funny, to teach our kids the seriousness of the matter. The message cannot only be given out in schools. My oldest is getting closer to now to reaching these years and I am doing and will continue to do my best to make sure she stays away from being an instigator of this, or just standing there laughing.
There were two kids who bullied me throughout my first half of elementary school. They kept saying the word "bus" over and over again. There's actually a reason why that word scared me for a while: About three weeks into my 1st grade year, I got on the wrong school bus by accident. I didn't know my address at the time, so I couldn't tell him where I lived. He eventually dropped me off at the school where they called my mother to pick me up. It was an incredibly scary and stressful situation for the 5 year old me.
The two that bullied me did it to other students too. One of them was in an alternative school by the time he graduated elementary school. One of my friends from high school's mother recently told me that the other one was arrested for breaking into cars.
Nothing as bad as my middle school son is experiencing. The same girl has written in pen on his jeans, sprayed him multiple times with perfume, punched him in the balls and repeatedly grabs his stomach (he's overweight).
I called the Principal and the Counselor about the sexual assault. Neither the female Principal or the female Counselor has done anything.
He's 5'10" and weighs about 180. I'm this close to giving him permission to punch this little **** in the face as hard as he can. Then we'll see what kind of response the administration at the school has.
Bullying is actually getting worse nowadays. Way worse, I'm not sure why. And in my small circle (3 kids at three different schools plus two teachers in the family) girls are really upping the ante.
Bullied by bosses, but I was younger and thought it was their job to do this... being forced to do menial dangerous tasks when I should have gone to union bosses.. but didnt find out till later.. teachers too can be bullies and were...
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). I was laughed at, had things thrown at me and was regarded as though I were carrying the plague. Didn't even have a boyfriend until I was almost 17.
