Originally Posted by: schmangeI attended a town hall meeting in my area today about bullying in the schools and what to do about it.
I was kinda blown away by the total apathetic response they gave... basically saying that bullying wasn't a big problem and students could always inform teachers if there was a problem.

Has anybody here been a victim of school bullying?
If so, how did it affect your performance at school?

Having come from the school I went through, bullying was popular enough that they might as well have made it part of the curriculum. Seriously, there wasn't anyone that didn't bad mouth anyone there. So, naturally, not fitting in with any of the cliques, I pretty much caught **** from everyone. And since the teachers weren't any better than the students (they were often notorious for humiliating select students while favoring others) there wasn't really anyone to turn to in a time of crisis. So how do the teachers expect a student in need to come to them when they're making fun of the kids as well? As for how it effected my performance... well... who wants to go to a place they hate because of who they're around? It'd be easier to work without having to deal with people. Maybe if the teachers gave us our own classrooms or something.