That's good that your school lets you fight back. I remember one time in 7th grade a guy pushed me into a counter and I hit him in response in class and as the guidance counselor walked me out to my parents' car after school that day (we'd both been given saturday school detentions) she asked me "will you get in trouble for fighting?" and I said "no - I was defending myself, my parents might be angry with you, though" lol. Over here, it's a lot of SJW nonsense in schools these days - they want all the kids to be cucks and want you to not respond if someone is mean to you and seem to generally punish the victims more than the perpetrators, hah - I'm glad my wife and I decided not to have kids. I'd no doubt have major issues with school administration over here with the way they handle things today.
And like you said about social bullying - I think that's becoming more and more rampant also. When I was in school (I'm 38, now, so it's been a while), we were just getting dial up internet so there was no facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. I'm thankful for that, too, I imagine that's gotta be pretty awful for some kids.
