So, bullying goes on in a lot of places, which most people are obviously aware of.
I'll give you a scenario/story of something that happened to someone in my class last year:
There was this person who recently moved into the area of our school last year, and naturally enough - he came to the local school.
This was first year, so we had all just went from primary to secondary, so nobody really new each other that well but everyone else knew at least one person.
He didn't.
So, even on the very first day he would've had trouble socializing anyway, and as I'll say later he had antisocial behaviour.
After a couple of months, he was still an outsider, he didn't participate in any sports/clubs in school or outside of school.
During lunchtime while everybody was talking, going downtown, doing whatever, he would go to the library and read books.
People then starting calling him names, things such as 'loner', 'bookworm', ect, things most people wouldn't find too offensive, but, I guess he just took it the wrong way.
When people got a reaction out of him, the names got worse, and it eventually turned into physical harassment.
Some people did make the attempt to invite him over to talk and whatnot, but, he was just so used to everyone making a fool out of him he just a built a wall around himself.
Someone, decided to make a facebook page 'retending' to be him, they had photos of him up on it, which they took themselves while he wasn't looking and whatnot.
Most people knew straightaway who it was that created it, but nobody really said anything, it's easier to join in with bullying than to go on the opposite side of it and actually try to handle the situation.
How that problem was solved was he showed the page to his mother, who had then printed pictures of it and took them to our principal/headmaster.
So, with questioning in private and whatnot - the principal found out who made the page, which really wasn't too hard anyway.
Next day; on our way to class, someone started pushing him and others joined in, and he literally just snapped.
He got his pencil and just stabbed someone repetitively in the head with it, and said person had to get stitches.
The person who was being bullied took a week off school to cool down, clear his head, we found out later he was seeing a psychiatrist but, that is really irrelevant.
When he came back, there was only two weeks left in the year, and we found out he was leaving the school - the bullying kind of wore off, people either grew sick of it, or just didn't want to have to deal with getting stitches or just grew up.
He's getting on alright now, in the new school, no bullying or anything, since I know someone in the school he moved to.
I kind of resent myself for not doing anything about it, I never engaged in bullying, and even attempted to sit beside said person in several classes, but, he probably just thought I was going to annoy him, harm him/whatever given the people I hung around with at the time were the people who instigated the bullying, originally.
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I guess morale of the story is, if you have one friend, you're okay.
Talk to someone about it, might not be the best thing at the time, but eventually everything will pan out alright.
I hope it doesn't go to the depths of you having to move school, because, I just find that blatantly unfair.
Good luck, anyway!
