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Originally Posted by senior citizen
In a "spin off" from the baton attack on the motorist in TV, I was thinking that "some bullies may never grow up".
Although "bullying" has been discussed in the news media of late, and I've actually heard about it back when our first grandchild was in middle school and our daughter would say how bad it was getting in the schools (she's a teacher herself).........it's really nothing new.
Perhaps the bully was bullied by someone as a child.....and in that case, it is learned behavior.
However, nowadays, the fact that bullying is driving teens and younger to commit suicide to escape the internet harassment, is very alarming.
My husband and I recall from our own "youth" that bullies always existed.
They probably always will (due to their own ignorance and insecurity; they feel stronger when they pick on the perceived weaker ones.)
I went to public school; my hubby went to Catholic school. We both remember "troubled kids" who would be passed back and forth from school to school........there were no special classes for them back in the 1950's.
I tried to mention to our daughter that as an 8 year old , I recall exiting school during World Series time of the year, such as now.......and see a whole horde of little boys circling one boy.........beating him up. This was right outside the school....in the schoolyard. My husband said it also happened at his school.........and in high school at the lockers.......I don't recall it in high school.
But, I do remember as little 8 year old girls and up, my entire group of friends, who had to walk about 6 blocks each day after school to our homes and our neighborhood.........would be terrorized by an "Alice Kondrowski"......(Wonder where she is today? No doubt still picking on people)..
She had been "kicked out" of three Catholic schools and several public schools..........was now a student at the German Catholic School/church at the end of my street...........where I made my First Holy Communion and Confirmation, where I got married, etc.
It didn't matter which block we all walked down. She and her three cronies were there..........cursing at us (First time I ever heard the "F" word was from her)............we were really innocent kids in those days............no one I knew or in my family talked like she did.
Like a drunken sailor (just an expression; no offence to sailors out there).
If we changed streets......her "radar" seemed to know where to locate us.
It was truly awful to walk home from school.........we all were scared to death of her........and that's what bullies do. They seem to get power from frightening people.
If anyone has ever seen the Christmas movie about the little boy with the eyeglasses who wanted the B.B. gun for Christmas.........the one whose dad got the LEG LAMP.......love that movie..........well the kid in the coon skin cap.......was a male version of our Alice Kondrowski.
Lurking in wait........for the innocent kids to walk by......to pick on them.
Does anyone else remember bullies from their childhood schools or neighborhoods..........
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I can remember 2 bullies at my school.
They weren't the brightest indiviuals and would act out when in situations they were uncomfortable in. I was pushed to the ground once by one of these guys for the only reason that I had got an "A" in a math test and he had an "F".
Another time, I witnessed another of these bullies hitting another boy that he called a "bookworm" for no reason other than that. The "bookworm" went on to become a doctor, the bully I believe worked as a custodian in an office complex.
Bullies often use vioence to assert themselves, it is the only way they know of doing so.