One of the challenges I’ve faced that was tough on me going through the tiers of the educational system was dealing with bullying that either happened to me or my friends while we either walked home, rode our bikes home, ate lunch, or simply got pushed around by those bigger than us while in school. The worst one to face was the most ironic as well, Brendan was the smallest bully we’ve encountered, but also our biggest problem as well. One day while we were simply walking our bikes home until we got to the place where we could ride on them, Brendan stopped us from walking along one day with his group of seven or eight more friends than we had.
I remember the feeling of sheer fear when we saw him from all of the intense drama of just dealing …show more content…
None of you get to leave this spot until I get home, got it?” And repeated a couple more curse words, but other than that we nodded to what he said because we were only in sixth grade, didn’t want to get beat up until at least high school. He left us alone and we stayed at the spot until he stopped at the top of an incline we had to go up so in fact we couldn’t even go anywhere, until Jacob decided that we should just go around through the neighborhood beside the street we were on and so we agreed, walked our bikes back then rode them through the neighborhood beside and whenever we got to the turn at the end of the block where the crosswalk was Brendan and his posse of friends was there waiting for us and said. “You thought I wasn’t smart enough to realize you would do that? Well, then you thought wrong.” He told us, I remember that all of us froze in fear and slight awe that he figured out our plan far before we even thought of it, most of his friends remained quiet except for the occasional bickering between a few of them over how they would fight us and what they would do and
I remember the feeling of sheer fear when we saw him from all of the intense drama of just dealing …show more content…
None of you get to leave this spot until I get home, got it?” And repeated a couple more curse words, but other than that we nodded to what he said because we were only in sixth grade, didn’t want to get beat up until at least high school. He left us alone and we stayed at the spot until he stopped at the top of an incline we had to go up so in fact we couldn’t even go anywhere, until Jacob decided that we should just go around through the neighborhood beside the street we were on and so we agreed, walked our bikes back then rode them through the neighborhood beside and whenever we got to the turn at the end of the block where the crosswalk was Brendan and his posse of friends was there waiting for us and said. “You thought I wasn’t smart enough to realize you would do that? Well, then you thought wrong.” He told us, I remember that all of us froze in fear and slight awe that he figured out our plan far before we even thought of it, most of his friends remained quiet except for the occasional bickering between a few of them over how they would fight us and what they would do and