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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
To be fair when I finally snapped and clocked my bully in the back of the head with a stapler as he was handing his assignment to the teacher, the case wasn't strong in my favor. 7th grade fuck picked on the wrong 6th grader. This was after he stabbed me with his pencil several times while the teacher was looking of course. The broken pencil graphite made for some good evidence for why I took the action of putting a staple in his skull.
 
This is one of those times I truly loved my parents for going full belligerent at the school administration. Your punishing my god dam kid who was being stabbed kind of stuff. Got a little talk about going to the teacher, which I had to no avail. Was expelled of course, but my parents put me in another school that went better. There's a certain special feeling you get when your parents take your side against the world. Dam they're good
gpt
I remember my parents' line was that they had to show a "unified front" with the teachers.

Except the teacher in question actively disliked me and looked for excuses to punish me, even encouraging my bully. 

So I ended up getting in trouble repeatedly for stuff I didn't do, and then getting it reinforced at home because of my parents' blind faith in the teacher. They later changed their minds when they realized just how much I was putting up with, but this was years later so the damage was kind of already done.

It taught me to basically assume people in power aren't trustworthy, and to plan around the people meant to keep them in check not doing their job. In all fairness, that's helped me a lot in life. A healthy dose of paranoia has put me way ahead of the people who assume that good will eventually win out.