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Do the kind get bullied?

I believe I have been very patient with my students this year. Is that why they believe they can take advantage of that to bully me? Did they take for granted that what I believed was respect to them as meekness and docility?

An incident happened in school yesterday, along with other unpleasantries associated with my class. Frankly, I don't want to talk about it. It'd just spoil another day of my life. One spoilt day, along with all the others in this year, is more than enough.

Anyway, happened to watch a little bit of a couple of TV dramas last night. Coincidentally, they all showed some sort of bullying or people getting their way by shouting and being assertive. How to be assertive without screaming your head off? When the people on the receiving end disregard the stern warning given without increasing the decibel level in which it is given? (i.e. how to make people listen without shouting at them when simple slow instruction is disregarded?)

It's like the recent article on the judges shouting at the juvenile deliquents passing through their courts. Someone commented that they ought not to shout at them, talk logic with them. Excuse me, but their logic is obviously different from the typical teenager. Otherwise, they wouldn't land themselves in court, would they? Their logic is "no punishment, continue lor". And when they get punish, "huh? What did I do wrong? Why you punish me? I'm always right, ok! What's wrong with YOU?".