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The first thing you learn once the bullies find you is that you are on your own.

Billy Wolfe in Fayetteville, Arkansas knows:

The next day the boy showed Billy a list with the names of 20 boys who wanted to beat Billy up.

Ms. Wolfe says she and her husband knew it was coming. She says they tried to warn school officials - and then bam: the prank caller beat up Billy in the bathroom of McNair Middle School.

Not long after, a boy on the school bus pummeled Billy, but somehow Billy was the one suspended, despite his pleas that the bus?s security camera would prove his innocence. Days later, Ms. Wolfe recalls, the principal summoned her, presented a box of tissues, and played the bus video that clearly showed Billy was telling the truth.

It gets worse:

Ms. Wolfe remembers the family dentist sewing up the inside of Billy?s cheek, and a school official refusing to call the police, saying it looked like Billy got what he deserved. Most of all, she remembers the sight of her son.

"He kept spitting blood out," she says, the memory strong enough still to break her voice.

I guarantee you Billy is not an unusual case.

The advice given in self-defense classes the world over is: "Hit hard, and keep hitting until your attacker is no longer a threat." In Krav Maga classes, the doctrine is even simpler: do not respond with reasonable force. Meet any attempt to harm you with overwhelming force.

And that's what I'll tell my kids. In fact, I'll go a step further: Hit first, hit hard, keep it coming. I'm sure their mother won't like it. Tough.

All kids have a right to feel safe, to know that nobody's going to try to hurt them. Fayetteville School District is failing miserably, and its administration should be ashamed of themselves. They can't even protect a kid from other kids under their own roof.