NCed for this ...
Sometimes the bullies get their karma without you having to do anything.
I went to a school that looked "lovely" on the outside - the kind of place MNers would be discussing on the Education topic. The teaching was very good. But there was an unpleasant undercurrent in the culture, a sort of very low-level but constant bullying - hard to put your finger on and not like some of the really horrible things reported on this thread, but producing a sort of low-grade social anxiety the whole time. Others I went to school with say similar about the place. Looking back now, I can see that nastiness and exclusionary behaviour was directed to pupils who were less well off financially (and was basically about the usual stuff, class and race) .. but at the time it just came off as a bunch of girls being mean.
One girl in particular - a couple of years older than me - had singled me out and was pretty horrible to me over a sustained period of time, maybe a year or two. Just one example - "I can see you're wearing make-up Sharden. You shouldn't bother. You are fat and ugly so it won't do anything". You get the gist.
Fastforward a few years and I am at uni in a city far away from my home town. I think my mum was sending me copies of the local paper - this was pre-internet. I open the paper that week ...
... and would you believe it, the bully is dead! I will disguise the details a bit for anonymity, but in short she had taken up a dangerous sport. She'd been participating in the sport when she fell and was killed, probably instantly.
It was a very unlucky accident (for her) but - and this is why I have NC-ed - I was delighted, served her bloody well right. I cut the obituary out of the paper and stuck it in my diary, where it remains to this day.
PS I still love make-up, have loads of it. And all the bullies/abusers/cruel people mentioned on this thread (whatever their own sad backstory) can fuck right off.