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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 2755937, member: 1646"] Damn. That's some story. I think you have the beginning of a movie script. I think I rode the same bus as you in middle school, but more suburban. There were two kids that ran the group of bad kids (including girls). They were brothers and rarely did the physical part. One was later killed and the other went to jail for decades. They left me alone except once when they pushed a kid I knew for a couple years to mess with me. I could've kicked the crap out of him, but they were all lined up behind him snickering. They even asked me first "hey, do you have a brother we know in 8th grade." When I said no, the abuse began. I did nothing. Thankfully, in a game in gym, I sent their lackey flying about 10 feet and into a wall and stared at him. He backed off and they forgot about me. We had a girl with emotional issues that rode the bus. The girls beat her up every day. Once she came on the bus proud and showing off her new jacket. They knocked her down, took the jacket, lit it on fire and threw it out the window. The bus driver was afraid to do anything, because the assumption was the lead guys were carrying at least knives which they had shown people. A cop followed our bus to school from that point forward (or at least occasionally) and every once in a while we'd pull over for him to get on the bus. I was scarred from that couple years on that bus. I remember these things vividly because a big part of me wishes I had done something. What, I don't know. They could've beaten me to a pulp, and these weren't the "fair" fist fights I would get in with some other kids. My kids are just finishing sixth grade. They have never SEEN a fight, let alone been in one. I find that shocking. A kid pushed another kid on school grounds and was suspended. Part of me hopes they are ready for the real world, but another part is glad that they don't have to deal with the "boys will be boys" mentality towards real bullying and intimidation. [/QUOTE]

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