Correlation between size of student body and bullying

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I'm just curious if people here experienced more bullying in bigger schools or smaller schools. I would theorize that kids are more likely to get bullied in smaller schools because in order to be bullied, your presence needs to be known by the mean kids. There's more anonymity at a large school, so you'd think there would be less bullying. How many kids are/were in your school? Do you think this correlates with the severity of bullying?

I went to a small middle school (about 100 kids per grade), where I was bullied alot. It didn't help that I had just come out of homeschooling. In high school, there were 550 kids in a grade and I wasn't bullied at all. I don't know if this was because less people knew me or if the kids were more mature. It also could've been the fact that I joined the swim team. I'm not sure. All I know is that I was still my same socially inept self, but I felt better in a bigger high school.

I was bullied the most/worst in grade school (relatively small) and it got to be less and less the higher I went. A lot of that may have been due to greater anonymity with larger and larger schools. By high school I could be (and was) "invisible" except to a few people I hung out with.

Sometimes, children are bullied in elementary school years more than high school years because of the development age of all participants at the time (participants are bully, victim and bystanders). The younger kids are just learning social behaviour and might be acting inappropriately because of lack of instruction and guidance on appropriate behaviour.

Also, let's face it, in elementary school, the kids have more time on their hands and can engage in behaviours, such as bullying, because they are not overwhelmed by sports, homework and generally maintaining their GPAs. Also, in high school, I choose many of my specific classes so that I was not with the same people ALL day - just this lessens the opportunity for bullying and the development of a bully/victim relationship.

if you are attacked verbally or physically here is what you do:

go up to the person eyeball to eyeball, cornea to cornea

be on their cornea like white on rice

don't stop

ignore any remarks made by the person or his/her friends

don't stop

you will make an impression that you aren't to be f****d with...

I think people are also forgetting about the unique cruelty that only children seem to be capable of. Good or bad, kid's excel at extremes.

I like my method:
Tight, defensive boxing to a draw. One week.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt134616.html
as a back-up. You're hoping it's not going to come to that. And it gives you a certain confidence.

That's strange. For me, it was the opposite; good times in small grade school, tolerable times in medium middle school, Hard time in horrendously huge high school.

No correlation for me. Bad at elementary school (~200 students,) got worse then progressively better when I went to a large high school (~1000 students.)

Except that, that seems like a lot of eye contact right there. Thinking about that makes me itchy.

I went to a small private Jewish school with probable around 100 people in a grade until 6th grade, and I only remember one particular 'bully', but all he did is call me 'tweeter' for some reason and I'm not sure if that counts. Now I'm in a bigger public middle school with 400 people in my grade and I've definitely had more bullies. Next year I'm going to a public high school with 200 people (although I can't remember if that was in the grade or entire school), so I suppose I'll have to wait and see.

I highly advise you to find a club or some type of organized activity or sport, if you don't already have something. You'll have a better chance of having a good experience because bullies are usually too cowardly to pick on a member of a cohesive group. One of the main reasons I wasn't bullied in high school was because I was an active member of the music department and I was on the swim team. I was still a social outcast, but no one bothered me.

"Tweeter"? Wonder what he meant by that.

I have no idea...

im from a small school. 150 students in elementary, junior high, and high school combined. and the people didnt really get "bullied". more like fights broke out if people had a reason to fight. no senseless bullying. if you just stayed on our good side then good things happened