Did your school have school yard bullies?

No , i dont think we did....you would always get the mouthy girls, but they were all mouth....
we had groups , going around together, then when you came back from holiday, nobody would be talking to you, so we had to join another group....lol....i hated going on holiday, wondering what i was going to come back to......kids can be very cruel !!...
 

When I joined a new school, a gang of lads surrounded me, it was clear who the bully, ring-leader was. He started shoving me around, so, I punched him as hard as I could on the nose, making it bleed. he was stunned and I smacked him again, then I turned to his mates who were now backing off. I never got bullied in that school ever again, nor did I ever bully anyone.
 

I went to all girls school in London --- yes we had a few in my year and class etc ' I was never bullied as I had lot of friends in school
but saying that I use to see a lot of it going on ' my cousin went to same school same year and she got bullied 'which got me into trouble sorting out her problems -- I would never let anyone bully me bigger or not 'think standing up for myself came from playing with boys in the street when much younger ..
 
Weighed 114 pounds when I was 16, you know the story.
I had two sons; taught them how not to take a step back
BUt: 'Boys, boys stand your ground, but don't go jump on the other kids when their own their own ground.'
They turned into terrors, yes, I was sorry I had taught them how to kick ass, but a part of me was proud.

Interesting: Pugnos edere-latin 'to eat fist.' from my word book, goggle does not list pugnos
 
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Things are much different today. Here in Pennsylvania, as far as I am aware, all of our schools fight bullying. Students are now encouraged to rat out the bullies. Anyone caught bullying usually will face some form of disciplinary action, including expulsion, depending on the seriousness of the incident. It's been my experience that cyber-bullying is the worse, especially if a group of kids gang up on a single student. I have known at least one girl to have killed herself over being cyber-bullied. We have laws in PA against cyber-bullying, no matter what the age.

Local police handle school fights. Even though back in the day, most everyone accepted the fact that boys will be boys and fight now and then, today, it's different. Fighting in school in my area will get you a trip before the juvenile court judge and the culprit or culprits will serve community time. If a kid does any damage to another kid, like breaking a tooth, the parents will be held responsible for paying for the damages of the costs to repair. Girls are generally more apt to cyber-bully, while boys generally still physical bully.

Hopefully, this page is still available. We were called to the scene just for forensics only, but it's a terrible thing to see a young girl hanging by a rope. It brings tears to your eyes and a sad heart, that's for sure. The city police handled the case.:
Bullying Suicide:
 
More in the neighborhood and on the school bus than the school yard. I was definitely one that was picked on. There were two girls that lived a half a block from me and would not let me pass their house while riding my bike without an encounter. They would ram their bikes into mine then claim I hit them. The also made fun of my last name calling me DUMB-bar. A kid on the bus would slap and push me. I tell my mom and she would call the bully's parents and I'd get it even worse the next day. Then suddenly I had an epiphany and told myself that I was bigger tham most of the kids pickng on me (I was an early bloomer), so I started to hit back. The bullying soon stopped when the others realized I was going to retaliate.
 
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There were certainly school yard bullies in my day, but discretion can be the greater part of valor, and you soon learned who the bullies were, and how to avoid or defuse the mad dogs. In the absence of guidance counselors and bullying prevention programs, a perceptive teacher could sometimes intervene for the bullied students by reading bullies the "riot act;" one saved me once...
 
I was never ever aware of bullying when I was in school. I graduated HS in 1963. Certainly I never knew girls to physically fight each other-- even if we wanted to, we wouldn't have done so; we were all too worried about messing up our hair or clothes (all the time I was in school, girls were not permitted to wear pants to school). I don't remember ever having the slightest wish to fight anybody.

When I was in school, the kids were generally a very well behaved lot, at least at school we were.

Sometimes a couple of the boys might fight out behind the gym, but nothing major.
 
We had the boys side and girls side and there were the circles that each set of girls hung in. From what I recall there wasn't any bullying, but there was a lot of girl gossip type silly stuff. The only physical fights happened between the boys.
 
When I was in grade one or two there were two older people who tried to beat me up one day.
To this day I have no idea why. The girl was an older sister of a really nice girl. I think they could sense fear from me or something.

Then in grade 7 I hung out with a group of girls and one of them decided to try and pick on me. She walked behind me taunting me for about half a mile but the moment she laid her hands on me I took her down. 😬lol

People left me alone after that.
I guess I was butch back then. 😂
 
I watched a few matches on TV from time to time. I remember watching the first time. I thought it was part of a movie that I had accidentally tuned into. Then, I heard the announcers talking all about a player called a “Jammer.” I never quite figured out what the object of the match was, or how a team won. I think a clock is involved and somehow the team scores points by the Jammer lapping their opponent’s players.

I saw these 2 guys join hands and stretch their arms out across the track so they couldn’t be lapped, but the Jammer got a really good jump and broke their chain. I never understood if the guys skated and then the girls skated and they were both on the same team. It’s kind of confusing. I did see 1 Jammer jump over two guys holding their arms across the track. Now, that was impressive.
 

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