Here is my story. About 3 years ago, my daughter is 11 and is a Christian School. This school is a great school but has been taken in "Scholarship" students... i.e., those kids that the county will no longer take and the Pub Ed pays their tuition.
Daugher is about 5"3" at 135lbs... coal bread and corn fed athlete. Her little buddy is named Garrison, and is a year younger and is 55lbs soaking wet.
For bullying, always look for connecting dots... thus, if there are two incidents... it is targeting bullying. These Scholarship kids were picking on Garrison during Lunch and taking his food.... My daughter shared her food with him. After classes and recess, they play in the gym.
Garrison is dribbling the basketball when one of the scholarship kids throws a basketball at his head, then the other kid takes his ball. Connect 2 Dots is all my daughter needed. She when up to the kid that threw the ball and popped it out of his hand, as he was looking up, she grabbed his wrist and twisted it back until she laid him on the ground and said, "Don't get up"...
The other kid was wondering what was going on and dribbling toward her like what are you doing. She timed the dribble and kicked the ball up into his chest and shoved him back and told him to "Stay on the ground".
She grabbed Garrison and a basketball and went to the other side of the court to play. This all happened under the watchful eye of the principal. Who then called me.
The scholorship kids were suspened for 3 days and Lauren was patted on the head by the principal, Garrison's mom and I took her to ice cream. I always told her when she see's something wrong happening... you end it at easily as you can with getting the point across to stop what they are doing.
I am proud of her.... now, she is 14 , 5'10" 144lbs and is a demon on volleyball, basketball and softball. She has good mind on when and not to act... and she knows as long as she is helping those that can't help themselves... she will have no worries from me.