I'd be grounded for months

That’s just fucked. I dealt with my bully problem in 5th grade by waiting outside each of their classrooms, one at a time, and basically jumping them and making sure I managed to put some marks on them. I wanted to get all 5, but got caught after 3. It didn’t end up mattering though, the message was sent loud and clear, do not fuck with me. I got suspended for a week, but my parents didn’t care. They knew what was going on and knew how I planned to deal with it.

I never had another problem all the way through high school. Several years after I graduated, I ran into a former classmate who told me that my little rampage earned me a reputation as quite the psycho. People were warning their older brothers in high school not to fuck with me when I was a freshman.