the problem of school bullying

I’m quite insecure, even now… I won’t believe that people like me. Bullying in schools has long been a matter of concern. This concern is a very understandable one, since most adults will have had some experience of the problem, either as children themselves, or through their own children or their friends’ children. In the above extract, a 28-year-old woman recalls some of the systematic bullying she experienced at school. Although now leading a normal life, she also mentions the long-lasting effects which she believes these experiences had for her.