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Originally Posted by boomerbaby
I remember both boy bullies and girl bullies. They were really mean and if you told on them the nun would punish them but they really had no one at home that stayed on them. Parents did nothing about it so they would just keep picking on you. I did all I could to avoid them even taking a different bus home from school and having to walk from that stop home and it was a distance, I am very glad that we did not have the internet back then because what we had to go through was in our neighborhoods and school but today the world can here someone being bullied. People put their names and pictures up.It is very sad.
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You are no doubt younger than we are, but I can relate to your mention of different ways of avoiding the bully (such as taking a different bus route, etc.).......yes, it is worse today with the internet.
Our "Alice Kondrowski" and I hope she's out there somewhere and reads this..........would literally be lurking "halfway" between our school and our neighborhood...........so there was no way a teacher, nun (from her school), or our parents or any relative for that matter, could apprehend her or protect us..........it didn't happen near our home or near our school.
It was the "inbetween zone"............there were three different streets we could take to get to our neighborhood. She must have had built in radar.
No matter which street we walked down (going home from school) she was on it with her little "gang".........now mind you, these were not teens.
She might have been ten years old to our eight years old? They would surround us and terrify us..........it never came to blows. It was just fear.
She enjoyed instilling fear in people. I hope she turned her life around.
I always think that bullies learn it at home.......someone has picked on them and they , in turn, direct this rage or insecurity, whatever it is, towards others. But it was her filthy mouth that was worst of all.
Long long time ago, but she was ahead of her time as far as being a bully.
Nowadays, it seems that her parents would have been contacted......
Back then, kids didn't necessarily "tell" what happened to them enroute to or from school.........Really.