Bullying at school ... urban myth?

Question

I have been reading a few questions posted about kids being bullyed and picked on. Quite a few people, including my boyfriend has also mentioned a few times that he was picked on at school.

Through primary school to high school I was never victim to bullying, or was even aware of it. I went to a public school on the lower North Shore of Sydney (considered a well off area).

I am wondering why this didn't exsist in my childhood? Has anyone else led a bully free childhood?

Answer 1

I did, but I am mean like all H*LL....so maybe just maybe I was the bully=/

Answer 2

You should feel great that it didn't happen with you it did not happen with me either as yet and i ma happy about it

Answer 3

i was never bullied myself but i saw bullying arund me everyday at school in some form or another..so i guess by jst bystanding and not doing anything i was contribuiting to it..

specially in yr 6&7 h**l bitchy primary school years

Answer 4

NO!  Not an urban myth!  It's REALITY!

I've been bullied verbally in high school.

I was a special education student at my school.  I was one of those people out in the world who cannot stand to hear people / kids / babies cry, so some students would once in a while impersonate crying noises at me, even shout "WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH" at me.

The school that I went to held a thousand students, and 4 different learning communities.  It would include ghetto students who can be essentially immature.

I had talked with my social councilor about this situation and I have tried my best to ignore them, but it was hopeless.  The bullying can overpower me easily, rather than keep me on my feet ignoring them.  It was like I'm being threatened by some people I don't know whoever wants me dead.  It's terrible!

Answer 5

some schools have it some schools don't.

Answer 6

NO. THIS IS OBVIOUS BECAUSE YOUR ALWAYS GOING TO MEET SOMEONE WHO DISLIKES U IN LIFE. SOMETIMES FOR NO REASON AT ALL.  

Answer 7

kind of dpends on your neighborhood, city,town,the atmosphere in general, and i have neve been "bullied"  

Answer 8

yea ive never been bullyed but ive seen people being bullied the people that mostly get bullyed is people with classes or the people that have no friends and there ugly.and its hard not to bully people ive bullyed someone before but i wont do it again i hope cause after i felt really bad!

Answer 9

Some schools have bullies.

I have never been picked

But my sister in first grade told me she has been picked.

In preschool she told me she has been punched.

At the bus she tells me some kids bully others.

Wierd.

Answer 10

kids today are a lot more accepting of others than they used to be. prejudices are slowly disintegrating. thank goodness. there will always be bullying because of selfish kids but its definitely gotten better

Answer 11

I was never really bullied but I did take up for myself quite a bit so nobody really messed with me.  (I was quite tiny in school, always the smallest kid in class).

My brother, never took up for himself.  He was picked on for everything possible.  I sometimes stepped in and made threats and this sometimes took care of the problem.

I went to a VERY small school.  Graduated with about 110 other kids.

Answer 12

Maybe you were popular? It's generally the unpopular kids who get bullied. Perhaps you weren't popular, but didn't stand out from the crowd or look weak enough. Trust me, bullying is NOT an urban myth. I get literally spit on!

Answer 13

I was never bullied at school (vic) personally, but knew people that were. Some of it was pretty bad. I know one girl dropped out of school because it.

One of our friends was getting bullied, so we gave the girl bullying her a taste of her own medicine..like most bullies she backed off pretty quick

Answer 14

i have never been bullied either...

Answer 15

I think the prevalence of bullying is blown way out of proportion. Yes, 'bullying' exists, but most of the time those that are bullied shake it off and don't even KNOW that they've been bullied. The concept of bullying seems so negative but I think it also makes kids stronger to accept criticism. Being a 'b*tch' can be classified as being a bully. It's just a really dumb concept, in my opinion.

Answer 16

bullying an urban-myth? erm..simply NO. I see lots of people getting regularly bullied. By the way I'm 13 and go to school so I do know.

hope this helps. :)

Answer 17

Many people go through school and do not notice or are not bullied.  I am glad this was the case for you.  

This is not the reality however for some students and this can make life very hard if not unbearable. I am a teacher and can say that it does happen, mainly to students who have issues with resilience and is perpetuated by the peer group.  It is often explained away as just teasing or kidding but when students have this occur often it can have a big impact on them.  Schools put policies in place and teach skills to cope with bullies and many are successful.

I hope this helps.

Answer 18

Allot of bullying goes on without any else knowing about it. Also, you may not be the type of person that would be looking for that.

I also went to a good school in a higher economic area, but there was bullying going on there.

Maybe what you think is normal behavior is bullying.

An example might be; Some of the more popular girls at the school I attended liked picking on the less popular girls. Often people do not notice this because thy are so self consumed or they just never suspect those popular girls of being bullies.

I always noticed these things going on and disliked those bullies very much. I would rather hang around the girls who were less popular because they were not as pretty, too fat, too skinny, less intelligent, not athletic, shy etc... I was a pretty, intelligent, and athletic girl in school, but stayed away from that "popular" crowd.