What happens to those kids everyone picks on? From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
I don’t want to recall their suffering but I also can’t pretend it never happened. They were tormented daily, over extended periods. I can only hope and pray that they recovered.
They were children being abused… tortured if we’re to put it bluntly… by other children. And it’s still going on.
- Carly was tormented mostly by other girls. They would surround her, laugh at her, point at her, and mock her… over years. She was told, loudly and publicly, that she had an ugly face, ugly hair, ugly clothes, and that she was stupid. This happened five days per week, nine months per year.
- Ron was tormented by the boys. I still have images in my mind of him being forced to play baseball, surrounded by at least twenty boys who laughed at his every move. They laughed so loudly that you could hear them from the far side of the field. This was not limited to sports, and it forced his entire family to move.
- Debra was humiliated with purpose and malice. Both boys and girls called her “dog” to her face. This went on for years, until her family moved.
- Martin was surrounded by other boys and slapped around by them, one after another.
- Deirdre was chased down by a group of boys who held her down and pulled off her underwear.
- Stanley had his physical appearance ridiculed on a daily basis for many years. He was occasionally slapped around and was criticized continually.
All of this, if you haven’t guessed, happened in or around school. I made a quick count of my schoolmates (at fairly small schools) and found ten who were tortured this way in my early years. In rough numbers, that means that for 3-5% of my schoolmates, walking into school meant walking into abuse. The rest of us had momentary torments, but nothing like what these kids experienced.
