Wes Mantooth

I don't recall ever being bullied growing up to be honest. I was friends with most of the kids and generally found common ground with most groups. My friends were kind of a mixed bag of every clique and everyone kind of new me as a friend of a friend and usually left me alone.

What bothers me the most is the whole "boys will be boys" attitude schools often took in bullying cases. As though bullying was just a right of passage to manhood or treating it as though the kid getting bullied was bringing it on himself and needed to shape up. They almost never addressed it and just acted like it didn't exist.

I imagine that attitude must have changed in the post Columbine world...or at least I'd hope. Schools were just really fucked up places when I was kid.

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