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When I was being bullied, my mom told me to just 'walk away'. That just made the bully more incensed and devious. My 9th grade yearbook was ruined because she took an entire page up insulting me, calling me names, etc. Yes, this went on the entire school year, yelling at me in the halls that she was going to 'kick my ass', calling me 'pizza face'; it was a nightmare and it didn't go away because I never confronted it. She knew I was too shy to stand my ground. And the school put us in the same classes! It's over 30 years later and I still have those painful memories.
The principal, a pansyass anyway, said he couldn't do anything unless she actually hit me. It's no different now-my son and his bullies got no intervention until they beat him.
No one has the right to do this to another, but if you don't stand your ground, you are giving them the right to do it. And if you only walk away, the fear is still there and that, as I said, is giving power to someone that just doesn't deserve it.
You don't have to be a bully back-my son hitting the kid over the head was wrong, but both I and the principal silently applauded his stance. But had the bullying been stopped as it was being done and noticed, it wouldn't have gotten to that point.
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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