Had to Google WTCC . Dissapoint . <| sep |> I was bullied early in highschool before a growth spurt made me one of the bigger kids in not just my class , but my highschool , and I then spent the rest of highschool defending everyone I could from bullies by being a bully . I beat up a lot of cool kids for bullying weaker kids , because nothing else I could see made any difference . I mean , reporting didn ' t do anything , teachers didn ' t help . So I made myself into a champion . It didn ' t make me feel good , and it only helped individual victims , the bullies always moved on to someone new if I intervened . One time a kid I stood from picking on a younger , effeminate kid set his dad on me . Dad marched up to 15 year old me and punched me on the face , with junior standing sheepishly off to one side . I started yelling about why I ' d shoved his kid and dad went white with rage , helped me up and apologised . He didn ' t see any irony in the fact that he , a 30 something man , just belted a teenager in the mouth . Just turned around and started laying into junior for being a bully . I know I did the wrong thing , that I was a bully myself . In my defence , I only ever did it to help people who couldn ' t help themselves . I know that doesn ' t make it ok , but I note it counts for something that I meant well . If my kid ever bullied anyone else , there is no way I would defend that . I don ' t understand the mentality of someone who finds out that their kid has been preying on the weak then defending it or trying to justify it . I think that ' s the biggest problem , that parents seem to take bullying as a personal insult on their parenting skills , when it ' s actually about the childs social development . Parents who don ' t deal with bullying are doing an incredible disservice to their own child , let alone the victim of the community . I would be devastated if my kid was a bully .