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I honestly haven't felt the need to defend myself in about fifteen years now. Prior to that, it seemed that from junior high school through until I graduated other students would try to get me to come out after school to some designated location to fight for no particular reason.
My first attempts to deal with the situation were just not going, but then I got 'jumped in the street' so to speak and beaten up by a couple of them (maybe it was three!) and it became obvious that this wasn't the way to handle the situation.
My second attempt, after having been beaten up a couple times, involved going to the school administration, but they really had no interest in getting involved in any way so all that managed was to anger these guys at the little punitive measures the school did take. Needless to say, this only made things worse.
The third tactic was the one that ultimately worked very well. This time, when approached in the school hallway by a fellow student about meeting somewhere for a fight I dropped my books and slammed his head into the lockers and continued until the other students pulled me away.
This seemed to become an annual ritual as apparently everyone would forget that I wasn't going to wait to go fight somewhere over the summer holiday and somebody would always come up to me within the first two weeks of school with some imagined issue. It was never the same guy, though...
In retrospect, this probably was more effective and less detrimental to me than it could have been because I had already tried other measures, which had the effect of the school administration being fairly lenient toward me, but not toward the person who had picked the fight. Most people don't care to get hurt, and it seems that, at least when I was in school, they didn't much care to go home and tell their parents they were suspended within the first couple weeks of school either.
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