Dude that was in 3rd grade lol. How old are you haha? I can't even remember when I was in third grade.

im 17 in about 2 - 3 weeks.

Lol! But that's all in good fun.

Yeah I know, that's why I said it's the closest i've come to teasing

If I ever "bully", its usually towards obnoxious people and it usually just includes me embarrassing them in front of everyone by tearing them apart in an argument.

I respect the nerds that walk around my school with brief cases for laptops and linux/firefox shirts and often ask them for computer help, lmao. Though I don't hang out with them, I hate it when I see people start shit with them, because its pure ignorance and proves nothing. You want to show dominance? Do it through how well you do in school, how well you perform in sports and the girl and friends you got by your side.

I'm very modest at school, yet I know I could kick everyone's ass except for one person who is 6'0'' and trains muay thai everyday, my best friend =D

I don't use that to get to the top of my chain, I do it by gaining respect. Everyone respects me because I can relate to everyone, I make an effort to talk to everyone and in return everyone knows me, not as an obnoxious attention whore, but as someone who knows his way around the school and someone who kicks ass.

Then again, its probably easier for me to do this in a school of 220 people.

ROFL? Only 220 people? That is so sick lol. In my school of only like 1000 students, I would say, 800 of those people just smoke cigarettes and weed to be cool, get drunk for fun, and make fun of others but won't let others make fun of them....

3.3k in my school. I haven't seen a real bullying here ever since I arrived more than a year ago - the worst I've seen was someone just following someone making noises while his friends giggled from behind.

Me, bully? Naww. The worst I do playful teasing, and those people don't even always notice.

There's about 2500 in my school, I believe. As for bullying, I would say I don't see much of it. It usually doesn't go past "teasing".

I've been in life or death situations, and I have felt fear before.

I only have about 500 kids in my school. I feel small.

Hold on a second, you expect me to believe that someone that plays starcraft and posts on sen can do that? Oh yeah... I totaly believe you .

There is 500 people in my school and we're K - 12.

I didn't want to brag, but I really can probably beat everyone up. I keep a heavy object with me at all times.

Wow, I only been in one situation like that. This guy in gym class was throwing my ball around, and then he threw it in the equipment room, I went to get it. Then I was leaving, and he came in and pushed me. I pushed him back with the basketball, then he threw me against the door and put his chubby hands around my neck for about 5 seconds, then let go. I think he either realised what he was doing, or just decided not to do it. My neck was red for a week.

I sir, do not fear death, the ones who fear it are the ones who get caught by it. The ones who are not wary of it stumble into its traps. I am wary of death, but I do not fear it. Death is the only true fear, once it is overcome fear is nothing.

My fear of getting physically tortured (to death) is probably greater than my fear of death itself.

Bullying happens. It just does. Efforts to stop it completely are in vain.

And why are you reading my local paper? WTF?

ADD: Ah, noticed that it was in fact the Winnipeg Free Press who was reading my paper, and you were merely reading theirs. Oops.

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Oh well it can be stopped, but it is more of the whole community is against it type of thing that stops it.

wow@matt being the only honest person on sen.

Something I wrote in 9th grade on bullying:

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Meet Billy, Billy is a little 8 year old boy, who is picked on and humiliated everyday by Roger, a bully that attends his school. Let's discuss Billy’s hopeless situation. Some would say he should just tell, but is it really that simple? There are some things Billy should not even consider. Most kids feel the overwhelming power in a tool to be the only way out.

Billy is a relatively shy boy who attends a public school. He does not bother anyone and maintains good grades. He has some friends, but he is still looked upon as a loner. There is another boy at school. His name is Roger. One day, Roger was bored. He decided to pick on Billy the rest of the day. Billy was small and skinny so he could not defend himself against the larger Roger. Roger would call Billy ‘stick boy’ while Billy hung out with his friends. His friends started referring to Billy as stick boy from then on. Roger throws spit balls and slaps Billy in the back of the head during class. When the teacher does rarely catch Roger in the act he either yells at Roger and Billy, or he purposely ignores it. In just one day Billy’s world has been turned upside down. It did not just end in that one day, no, it turns into an every-other-day ritual leaving Billy with very few options to consider.

Billy arrives home everyday with an illusory good attitude and a smile worn as a disguise. He tells his family that his day was good, but sometimes snaps if they try to dig any deeper. On one particularly bad day, he almost caves in, but what stops him is knowing what the consequences will be. If he does decide to tell the first thing he will get is a lecture on why he should have came to them sooner. He will then go through a grueling questioning of what exactly happened. He will strangely have trouble recalling what happened all those times. Roger will be talking calmly, collectively, and lying through his teeth. The administrator will equally punish them with a day of detention. All that crap he had to put up with comes down to a day of detention. It is enough to make a kid go insane. It is far from over though. When he goes to school the next day, everyone will make fun of him for being a ‘Tattle Tale’, and worst of all is that in a week the bullying process will start right back up again. This is what keeps Billy from telling. That is what keeps him from caving in. There has to be a better option than this.

There are some choices that are too dumb to even consider. Billy knows the two things he will never to do in this situation: Suicide and nothing. By killing himself nothing is accomplished. People will remember him, but no one will be grieving other than his family. It is a stupid choice if you are going for broke any ways. Would you not rather go out with a bang? Roger would eventually start tormenting another and all will be lost. Another thing he will not do any longer is nothing. Something has to be done, and Billy is not getting any where by just waiting.

Billy is left with the last option he could come up with. This option is a means of revenge. He is tired of being the push over. He wants to prove that he is a force to be reckoned with. He is going to make Roger and everyone else pay with a tool the size of his scrawny fist. The pushing, the beating, the words, and the laughing, most of all, the laughing will stop. In the end, Billy will be towering menacingly tall over Roger. Roger will be the one crying this time begging for mercy, and in an instant the score has been settled. He will not kill himself though, instead he will take a 10 year sentence. After that he might reflect on himself to see if the 10 years was worth the life of a boy, but with a memory dangling in his mind he remembers “This was my only choice?”

Sadly, many young boys and maybe girls have had the thought of a gun as a form of salvation in one way or another. Something has to be done in order to give Billy another choice. In Billy’s hopeless situation, some would say he should just tell, but is it really that simple? There are some things Billy should not even consider. Most kids feel the overwhelming power in a tool to be the only way out.
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Good predicament. However, unfortunately, the one being bullied generally doesn't ask for help and people against it are the ones that fix everything.
Take this example from my school:
So I was standing, waiting to let us in, and there were people around everywhere. Some of these people were horsing around, and I let them, I wasn't about to try and stop them from doing stupid things.
Now, there was a high school freshman who thought it'd be funny to take a smaller child's lunch box (my school is kindergarten - 12 grade... yes we're that small O.o). So he starts playing around with him, and the child is laughing and stuff, so I let them be, but still observing closely. Now, when the child gets angry because the freshman says he won't give it back. And too my surprise the child charged the freshman and it was obvious he was angry, and the freshman easily held him back, and was laughing at the child's futile attempts to get his lunch box back. So naturally, being who I am step in.
The first thing I do is manage to get the child from stop charging the freshman and tell him to calm down. The freshman who realized what was happening gave the lunch box back and all was well. I gave a harsh glance at the freshman, but spoke no words. I didn't have to, he knew full well what I meant.