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In reply to the discussion: boy, 12, kills himself after 'he was bullied [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)It is what I had to endure for two whole years in Junior High School in Detroit (1961-1962). It eventually led up to a broken jaw -- mine. One would think that would put an end to it, that the school administration would ask themselves, "Do we have a problem here?" Nope! Any bullying that lead up to my broken jaw pales in comparison to what I endured for the rest of my days at Cadillac Junior High. It got much much worse. I was pummeled daily, often in classroom in front of teachers who did nothing, or chose to see nothing.
Unknown to me until many years later, my mother was in the principal's office many, many times during those days, often more than one time during a week, begging the administrators to put an end to it. Her answer was always that "Boys will be boys."
Amazingly, I got out okay, and have made out sort of okay. I managed to graduate university in physics, with some distinction. But to this day, I think of those days in horror, which they were. But since then I also have had an extreme dislike for bullies.
I cringe when I read of these things and think, there but for the grace of god go I. (And I am a lifelong atheist.)
R&K