MatchboxVagabond wrote:
LoopyBanana wrote:
I'm bullied all the bloody time at school and the teachers do f all about it. My dad doesn't care to help anymore. Was anyone else bullied or are you bullied still? How do you cope with it? Is there anything I can do to make things easier?
I can tell you that fighting definitely doesn't work. I lost track of the number of kids I beat the snot out of when teachers weren't interested in putting a stop to it. And there was pretty much always another snot nosed brat that was next in line.
The main viable strategies are likely to collect as much documentation about what is going on and when and/or work with a therapist to develop better strategies for mitigating the damage that might come of the bullying. In most cases, bullies will move on if they aren't having an impact, but there are so many issues with that as a strategy.
It is worth noting that both assault and battery are illegal. They don't need to make contact for it to be assault and any sort of offensive contact can potentially be battery, even if it's indirect like breathing on your or throwing things. The more you document what's going on, the harder it is for the relevant authorities to ignore the problem.
*likes*
*they can be such scary people*
*some police are willing to let certain people slip if they feel their methods are intelligent*
*people with crowbars can be scary*
*I don't mind being in certain violent parts of the city though*
*I have no interest in power debates*
*I have nightmares sometimes though*
*to tomorrow gl