Should I do something about bullying?

Question

I'm korean and go to a school in korea(please don't be racist) but I've been living in the states since I was 2 and moved to korea a few monthes ago. In my class there are 4 or 5 kids who constantly beat up or pick on 2 or 3 other kids. Now these are REAL beatings, I'm talking tae kwon do, karate kind of getting beat up. Other kids don't do anything, possibly because of fear. I've ONCE tried stepping in when a kid was getting beat up but the bully grabbed me by the shirt and started threating and cussing me out. I was lucky that some other kid broke it up cause I'm not very good at fighting. Our homeroom teacher knows about this but I personally think that she's too soft because she thinks that they're all good kids and lets some of them off if they apologize. Do you think I should just ignore the problem unless they bother me or do something about it? I told one of the kids to get help. He told his mom and she confronted one of them. That got him beat up the second time that week. And if 1 bully goes down his friends find and beat up the victom. If something like this happened back in the US then I'm pretty sure most of them would end up in juvinile hall and get expelled though. What should I do?

Answer 1

I don't know what the standards are there, but most state schools have to have policies on things like this.

maybe approach the homeroom teacher and have a chat. if that's no good go to someone else. the trouble is that she is female and probable scared of these little thugs. sometimes you do need a man.

just keep going to different teachers. while getting beaten up isn't going to help anyone, you cannot just do nothing. if you can't change anything then that's a different matter, but at least you try.

Answer 2

They sound really tough. Best to do whatever they want and stay in their good books. You don't want to make enemies like that.