Donald Trump's Mockery of a Disabled Man is Middle School Crap

[MineralMan]

10. I was in high school in a small California town from 1959-63.

We had a bullying problem, but it got solved when a bunch of us started a campaign to call out bullying when it happened. That started after a meeting of about 50 high school kids at the church I attended at the time, along with the church's pastor. We also enlisted a number of teachers at that school, including the football coach. Student athletes were a big part of the bullying problem, as is not atypical.

That coach was a member of the same church, and the pastor and we kids talked to him about it. So, he instituted a rule for the team. Anyone engaging in bullying behavior would be cut from the team. He also strongly urged the team to join in the fight against bullying by calling out bullies and helping to make it not cool to bully.

The change was fairly fast and effective. The amount of bullying dropped dramatically. As a side benefit those of us who were involved got to know many of the kids who were being bullied much better. We found new friends among that group. In some ways, that was the first time I became an activist.