i was bullied for a number of years at a local school in my home town (northern UK) from the age of 5 until 10 by the son of my school's headmaster (!!). i was

i was bullied for a number of years at a local school in my home town (northern UK) from the age of 5 until 10 by the son of my school's headmaster (!!). i was even caned by that headmaster for "telling stories" that his son was bullying me. i learned most of this much, much later as an adult, but TL;dr my parents met many times with the headmaster, who simply refused to believe his son would bully anyone. my father and the headmaster apparently almost came to blows (but didn't, my dad is a good man) and the upshot was that i was withdrawn from that school and sent to a very austere Georgian quaker boarding school for the remaining 8 years of schooling. the change of school of course removed the headmaster's son's bullying, but introduced other [boarding school type] issues which likely scarred me in other ways. but at least the bully was gone from my life! n.b. some ~25 years later i did actually meet the bully/headmaster's son at a random event back in the UK; he had no memory of the bullying and i was heartened to observe that his life was a disaster and he was desperately unhappy. that made the ~5 years of bullying feel at least like it got me something.