Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-30384301-20181214143008/@comment-26888167-20181215005228

I've heard it's common. At least I was bullied during elementary school. Though I guess it also had to do that I was "the foreign student", since I'm from the USA, but I studied most of my school years in Nicaragua, where almost everyone was, well, Nicaraguan.

The last years of highschool were the best for me. We had a very strong friendship between the members of our classroom. You see, up until 9th grade, we were about 40 students in the classroom. But 9th grade was a rough year for most of us. When I went to 10th grade the first day, I was surprised to find out that our classroom was much smaller, now with less than 20 students. Most of the students that left were those who were problematic, bullies, or simply didn't pass 9th grade. But together, the few students that were still left, became much more united.

Those last years of highschool were great! Almost everyone in the classroom was friends with each other, and even though there's always people who don't get along, overall there was much less bullying than ever before. Not to mention, the classmates I was left with were generally more concerned with their grades, and would even go as far as paying me to go their houses in the afternoon to help them study the day before exams.