At every opening ceremony, the principal would repeatedly address the related issues.
But as the saying goes, sometimes the more people lack something, the more they tend to proclaim it.
Even without these local middle school troublemakers, bullying has always been an objectively existing issue in the school.
Offering cigarettes and baths are classic bullying traditions at Yangon Middle School.
The former refers to covering someone's mouth, inserting a burning cigarette into their nostril; it only takes a dozen seconds to ensure tears and mucus flow, in a truly miserable state.
The latter focuses more on humiliation.
Being stripped in public in front of girls, having ice-cold mineral water poured on your head, or, worse, being thrown into a urinal.
The insidious imagination behind school bullying has always surpassed adult comprehension.
