Again, only speaking from my personal experiences and what I have witnessed. There is no winning move. You have to have enough social sense to accurately "judg

Again, only speaking from my personal experiences and what I have witnessed. There is no winning move. You have to have enough social sense to accurately "judge" your bully. You could judge wrong. You may make things worse for yourself. When a bully has no problem getting physical (and has more friends than you do to back them up) is is harder to deal with than the "Disney-like bullies" that I mentioned. Best case scenario is a caring adult with enough authority gets involved. Even then, sometimes getting an adult involved makes things worse. Got the other kid(s) in trouble? They might beat your ass to get back at you. >If the goal is to get them bored, would "playing along" help? What if you laughed with them at their insults? Could be seen as taunting them, resulting in a beating. >What if you immediately curled up into a ball at imminent violence Beat you anyways? Might take some of the fun out of beating you until you curl up in a ball, but beating you to a pulp could be its own fun for them. >Just do nothing then? (the advice I gave, and it is also common advice) They may continue to escalate until they get a rise out of you. If it was jeering and teasing before - it might escalate to something physical. My solution was to drop out of school (remove myself from the equation) and go on Independent Study. It is very similar to being home schooled and I didn't have to deal with anyone. If I'm not around to bully/beat I can't be bullied/beaten. This option isn't always open to people, especially parents who refuse to let their kids be "home schooled" (because the stereotype only "dumb children" get home schooled and their child isn't dumb!)