In hindsight there were far better ways to deal with this if responsible adults were doing their jobs.

When I was 7 I was playing on our school monkeybars and a kid a bit older than me shoved me as I jumped for the first rung, so I had my own momentum plus his shove, I snapped my arm like a cracker and thankfully was knocked out so I didn't feel it.

I found out in the hospital that my brother was suspended from school for taking a cricket bat to the kids back, ribs and legs.

Hilarious as a child. And that kid never fucked with me again but that was just one event in a long line of reported harassment where I was told "just stay away from him".