Bullying Is Not Okay

I have been hearing so much lately about bullying. It has not acceptable in the past, and it is not accdeptable now. I was bullied in Junior High school, 7th grade. It started by a clique of girls, becoming jealous of me when I started blooming into a woman. Yes, I hate to admit that some girls can be so cruel, but they were. It happened to me at lunch time whenever I went to the restroom. It's like they had a look out just waiting. When I was ready to leave, there they were, intimidating me with cruel words, shoves and tripping. I didn't tell my parents for fear bullies would attack me even more. Of course I wasn't a happy camper. One day I had enough. I was talking to my homeroom friends, and they said, "This won't happen to you again." The bulies came into the bathroom the next day; my homeroom friends, told them that this wasn't going to happen again. The clique of girls left me alone after that. I had so much graditude for my friends. I never told my parents. That's what the bullies want. Daunting their victims, keeping them in constant fear. The school officials can't be everywhere at one time. So the bullies are getting away with it more than they should. I feel that if the student counsel of the schools could start maybe a pilot program against bullying. They could get volunteers and have the school backing them with rules to go by. The consequence for the actions of the bullies would not be forgotten but handled in a way that would stop all bullying in and out of school. In high school you have to do volunteer work before graduation, so the group working to stop bullying in schools could get credits that would be considered volunteer work. It might work. Peers against peers leading the bullies to see the error of their own ways.