You wouldn't know this..from the way i am now...but i was a victim of bullying for 8 years from the age of 7 up till 15..i put up with the name calling the punching hitting spitting sometimes....grabbing my bag and throwing it over my head...ruining my school work...hiding my belongings...that was just in infant school...when it progressed to high school..i threw myself into my work so i suppose i should be thankful in some way to those mindless little fucks that stole my childhood because i wouldnt be who i am now or where i am if it wasnt for them...it ended when i snapped...not because teachers or parents intervened...and put a stop to it...it was me...walking down the corridor to home economics...being punched in the back in front of maybe a hundred diff kids all pointing and laughing at me...i snapped turned round and hit that bitch harder than i ever hit anyone in my life to this day and everyone of them stopped right there n then n i never had no more trouble...but what this is about really is im enraged to find my little bro is now a victim and my dad is trying in vain to put a stop to it...why do kids have to be so cruel...dont they realise what there doing...im now 26 and still when i think about what was done to me my blood boils...one saving grace i suppose is i saw the main culprit of my bullying about 18 mths ago when i was visiting my dad....and found she was a smack head...her hair was lank shed lost teeth her skin was disgusting...and she was living out of the homeless hostel....maybe i should have felt pity for her...but i didnt...i just thought "look who came off better" and i cant help that...the damage her and her friends did i dont think is ever going to be repaired...i just hope dad can put a stop to it for my bro...has anyone else been a victim? or knew/knows a victim and felt helpless to do anything about it????all the hype about reporting it n shit...yea its good in theory but has anyone else "told" on there bullys only to find you ended up worse off?????