We're you bullied in school? What was the worst advice you got about bullying?

I was, and for the longest time I didn’t fight back. I attended parochial schools. The first one was in the city. It was diverse racially, although some of the nuns were biased against those of us who weren’t white. A boy who I liked very much would stop others from bullying the other kids, he protected me on many occasions. One kid was really bad about picking on the smallest kids—a real coward, because when our friend stopped him [b]he[/b] went crying to the nuns, and our friend was paddled in front of the class. It didn’t matter how many of us protested and told the adults that the [b]other[/b] boy had been the bully, and our friend had just stopped him. Our friend was stoic, didn’t cry—but several of us did. We were threatened with punishment for crying. It was the most unjust situation I’d ever seen at that point.
I was little, wore glasses and was biracial in the 60s. Not as obviously so as my middle sister, who has lighter skin and green eyes, but it made me a target of both white and black kids.
By jr high school I’d had enough and when a girl attacked me because a boy had said I was “pretty”, I fought back. And all I know was that when the lay teacher separated us, she had a black eye and loose front teeth. And the sad thing was, [b]that[/b] was what finally worked. Not going to the teacher, the nuns, my parents or anything else. Nobody else bothered me.