Serious What to do about Bullying?

[Princess Bubblegum]

I honestly don't get why people seemingly are against telling people about bullying (even suggesting you fight them before it), in my experience, especially in later grades, the most effective way to deal with bullies is to get someone with real authority over to deal with it. Yeah I know, sometimes teachers suck, so sometimes you have to go over their head to the principal which will do something about it, principals don't mess around.

Also, this might sound odd, but sometimes you just have to let the bullying build up so that they do something outside of verbally attacking you. If they give you bruise or break your stuff that is an undeniable proof of their abuse, and it will be dealt with.

 

[Cresselia~~]

Yes that works but you forgot something

95% of bullying cases where the bully is stronger than you
Tbh I was bullied a bit at the start of high school, best method is to stay in a group of friends, most of the time they only attack people who are alone
I tried giving hits back at first, but he was stronger and he quickly came with a bunch of friends, I got away with it tho by staying with friends and he forgot about me soon after that, but mostly because there were easier targets I guess

Girls usually do it verbally or psychologically, and are usually the ones who can think really fast.

Ha, back then I used to register multiple accounts on certain places to sharpen my verbal attack skills. (including Serebii :p)


Some people might feel shy to tell the teachers or their own parents because it either could be a sign of weakness, or that in some particular social groups, the hierarchy of teachers/ parents just make them very difficult to approach.
It took me 2 years to finally tell my mum about it, because not only she was a very strict woman, she was also having bad temper due to the economic collapse.

The more complicated thing was, the parents of the bullies were standing on their sides, and view bullying as an expression of dominance in the society.
As in, whilst they know that their daughters were bullying me, they find it absolutely acceptable.
One of the mums even told my teacher, that if I really was so unhappy, the teachers could move me into another class. (implying that it was my problem)