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Maybe the bullying was happening at your school and you were just lucky not to see it. I went to an excellent high school and it was filled with many friendly

Maybe the bullying was happening at your school and you were just lucky not to see it. I went to an excellent high school and it was filled with many friendly intelligent hard working people. I was still bullied. I’m sure many of the other friendly nice kids in my grade probably assumed no bullying was going on because they personally didn’t see it but I can assure you that even in the best schools it can and does happen. I was in high school 15 years ago.

trealira 3y ago
Yes, it's highly possible that it happened and I just didn't witness it. Though I had a couple friends, I wasn't very sociable, and mostly kept to myself when I wasn't eating with my friends. I was on the track team, but had no friends there either. Some students spoke English as a second language and had trouble with it. I know because I was friends with someone like this for a short while. They could have been easy targets for bullies. Some students were openly transgender. Maybe some people talked bad about them behind their backs and/or disbelieved them, or harassed them without me seeing it. I couldn't know without having asked them about it. I know that at least one other student knew a transgender student from middle school and wouldn't stop calling them by their old name and pronouns. I was also one of the few who didn't use social media, besides Reddit; maybe there was cyberbullying that I missed. I feel like I'm out of touch with most people my age because of this.