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Old May 12th, 2009, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Thems Fighting Words View Post
One of my friends always got physically bullied because he was a very skinny book worm and a few times I had to step in because I felt his safety was in danger (guys pulling knives, trying to throw him down steps etc).
See, this kind of thing just didn't fly in the area I lived in. Parents, teachers, even the jocks noticed it and put a stop to it. To the jocks, picking on the nerds was cool, but beating them up (excessively) wasn't. I'm not saying that there weren't fights, but kids didn't get repeatedly beat up just because they were bookworms.
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