Self-Defense to Combat Bullying?

Bullying is a huge problem in today's schools. More kids than ever are growing up after being bullied and wishing they had defended themselves. When I was that small, I did not know how to defend myself, so I sat back and took it. Now, I wish that I had done something about it. The arts of self-defense should be taught to children so they don't have to undergo the trouble of bullying.

First of all, kids need to stop laying back and taking bullying. Parents continue telling kids to "ignore it and it will go away." This is completely untrue. Bullying does not go away when you ignore it. Bullying only goes away when the person doing the bullying gets put down. Self-defense is the means to the end in this case.

Verbal bullying can be taken down in different ways. Verbal bullying can be taken down by possibly taking other forms of verbal action. The tried method of talking to an authority figure has around a 25% chance of working. Principals and other teachers would usually much rather look the other way than put an end to this bullying. This is not because the teachers are bad people and don't care, but it is because teachers and principals have to go through loads of trouble to remedy these problems.