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Yes, but that by itself doesn't end bullying, because bullying isn't just physical assault. I've been through it myself for three years, during a time where bullying was juuuuuuust starting to come to the public discourse, but not taken seriously enough.
Of course there was physical assault involved, but also in a lot of other ways, like mean comments and gossips, being excluded from everything related to your colleagues, humiliation in many ways as well, like mean nicknames and making fun of the things you like or pulling pranks.
And also it usually isn't an individual thing, it also depends a lot on the other people around the victim "looking the other way", which happened a lot with me, with the point of other classmates acting as an alibi for the bullies and trying to gaslight me.
There's not a lot that can be done about those if there isn't an actual effort from the school.
Oof. This is why I hate compulsory education.