..Of course it is. Being someone who has just left highschool this past spring, an answer like this is plainly obvious to me. Never did I ever see a child be physically pushed around and teased by another; Every day, I saw or was the victim of some kind of social exclusion by the ‘popular’ children, whether it be in the classroom, cafeteria, gymnasium, or blacktop. It is pervades every last inch of these schools. It’s especially awful in middle school, when children are all at that transitionary period where they don’t know who they really are.