There have been two bits of research on bullying recently that caught myeye. The first is about girls as bullies, and second is bullying outsideof school. Both have made me think about my own experiences and wonderat the fact that little has changed over the past 30 years.
I was bullied as a kid, for lots of reasons. I was tall for my age,overweight and not particularly bonny. My family, compared with othersin our area, lived in abject poverty and my jumble-sale appearancereflected this.
At school, the girls were the cruellest and lunch break was the worsttime. Standing in the free school dinner queue, there was a posse ofthem that used to make me break into a sweat as I approached theirtable.
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