What do you do if you see someone getting bullied?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>As sad as it is, I'm a senior in HS and I still see my peers get bullied by the popular kids a LOT. On Friday in Health Class, a few ass-ish guys were being really rough on this completely innocent sophomore boy, and eventually made him cry. Towards the end of class they started twisting the skin on his chest with their fingers, and I finally turned around and not so nicely told them to cut it out. They got nasty towards me and one of them flicked the back of my neck with a pencil, and took my purse and said that he wouldn't give it back until the sophomore kid told them how "big" he was. The bell rang and I REALLY needed my purse but they were all still sitting there in the corner with the sophomore with his head down in tears, and I snatched my purse from the boy (resulting in him throwing my pencil at me) and left, feeling horrible and like I could've stood up for the poor kid.. but I'm only a girl.</p>

<p>What do you do when you are an innocent bystander? Do you chime in and try to end it? Do you ignore it, or do you help instigate it? I feel like anything you do has bad consequences.</p>

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<p>Aw crap, that sucks. There’s actually a lot of camaraderie among the students at my school (relatively speaking), so these kinds of problems almost never occur, and usually only do occur between two people who can fend for themselves (in that it turns into a legitimate fight).</p>

<p>The least anyone can do though is to at least speak up. At least you gave him the hope that someone’s sticking up for him and that not everyone condones this kind of behavior. Good job.</p>

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<p>get a 9mm. proceed to empty a clip on the perpetrators.</p>

<p>Really, do what you think is right. Stand up for what you believe in. Feel good to know that they’re tempting fate with their actions. After all, karma will bite those bullies back. </p>

<p>Trust me, karma is real.</p>

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<p>“but I’m only a girl” </p>

<p>So? Just because you’re a girl doesn’t mean you can’t do anything. Okay so the bullies may be physically bigger, but you can always tell the teacher. If this is ignored for too long, one day a kid might lose it and go to school with a gun and start a massacre. Anyway, at least you tried to help the kid. I know I sound like a hypocrite, but realistically, I wouldn’t have been able to do what you did because I’m kinda of an introvert…:(</p>

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<p>I’ve never seen anyone being bullied. I go to a 6 year HS, and I’m sure some of the little 12 year olds buffalo each other, but it’s not like I ever see them.</p>

<p>If I did see some kids hectoring another, I figure I’d say “cut it out” or “amscray” or "what are you doing?</p>

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<p>Give the kid a coupon for some Krav Maga lessons, then watch the kid go all Ziva David on their a**es</p>

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<p>Yo, girlie, they have balls to kick. </p>

<p>My school doesn’t have much bullying that I see. Maybe it’s due to a gap because our football team sucks and the 4 cheerleaders are kinda odd looking (and usually one’s prego). We have a lot of pregos, gays, nerds, and gangstas. People are kinda resentful of the IB/AP students cause they figure we get all the benefits but I have tons of regular friends and it’s nothing bullied about, some AP kids are kinda jerks actually, so maybe the nerds rule the school. The soccer guys are kinda pervy. Mmmm, JROTC is practically the LGBT. Prego chicks really like to start crap, like they’ll talk mess and stuff, I guess because no one’s gonna fight a pregnant chick and they can or just the crazy hormones. </p>

<p>OH! There’s this one chick Kelly that acts all mean girls like. She has this stereotypical gay bff (who’s very annoying) and wears pink daily and a lil purse and all that. EVERYONE hates her, hah, she ran for student council pres and lost terribly, I saw her crying and was gonna care but remembered that time she shoved me in lunch and made fun of Deb so it was like “nah”. Seriously, I don’t think anyone likes her, probably not even her gay friend, who’s probably only her friend because he’s the same way.</p>

<p>I did once kick this guy in the nuts because he was messing with my friend, I was aiming for his leg honestly, he moved and his nuts ran into my foot. I don’t care how big these guys are, I’m gonna assume they have some kind of testicles, no matter how small. Wear boots. </p>

<p>Man, I’ve always wanted to go to a school like mean girls, you best believe I’d be taking kick butt and taking…well, after kicking butts there is no need to take a name. I’ve been in fights for less than someone taking my bag and messing with a nice friend, honestly. Tie hair up, don’t wear earrings, wear boots, stand tall, aim for punches in the gut, face and groin and never walk away once the other is on the floor. You make sure they’re down and stay down and walk backwards a few steps and then run away.</p>

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<p>Plus 1 to Krav Maga!</p>

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<p>Was there not a teacher within close proximity to you?</p>

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<p>As sad as this sounds, I do nothing. I see it sometimes at my school… And honestly, I’m sure people would listen if I said smt… But like the OP said, they would just turn the bullying on me…</p>

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<p>I don’t really see too much bullying at school, to tell you the truth. My school doesn’t really have any cliques since it’s so big, and there isn’t one group that reigns supreme over everyone else since not one person in my school knows absolutely everyone.</p>

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<p>No, the teacher was shooting hoops in the gym because we were just working on an assignment.</p>

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<p>^ That’s just irresponsible.</p>

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<p>Seriously? Ya’lls teacher is crud. I wish I went to your school, man I’d have fun.</p>

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<p>Wow, the senior boys at your school are freaking jerks. And wow, popular kids. Just wait till they get screwed in college. When you see them at a high school reunion, laugh at their faces for screwing up their lives.</p>

<p>If I was an innocent bystander, take pictures and show the principal the evidences of high school bullying. No sophomore should suffer.</p>

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<p>The same with girls. If they have that same shallow attitude, no boys will want to hook up with them in college.</p>

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<p>^ Unless they are attractive and the boys are equally shallow</p>

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<p>First, let me say I work at a K-12 school district (as a director at the district office in the finance department), so I do know the proper procedures.</p>

<p>(1) First, tell a teacher and describe things in detail. If you get no action,
(2) Tell the assistant principal or principal. If you still get no action, have your parents
(3) Tell the Assistant Superintendent over Student Services (or Educational Services) the situation and have them write it up–they will take action–and if they are worth anything, the superintendent will also be informed and the principal will be consulted about what he/she did to stop the action when it was first reported.</p>

<p>P.S. I’ve seen principals and teachers removed immediately when they didn’t take action to put an end to such threats. Bullying is one thing that should never be tollerated by any student.</p>

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<p>I kinda thought bullying stopped in like, 8th grade…</p>

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<p>This doesn’t really happen at my school. But when it does, I stick up for the kids. I am a pretty tough guy so I can protect them well.</p>