What's really ironic is that outside of about two grades, I wasn't bullied all that much. And in fifth grade, I didn't really have a dedicated bully. It was just the occasional insults, which at that point I didn't really care too much about. One of my middle school years, it got bad for awhile, but the bully ended up doing himself in by hiding some kind of contraband in his locker and a friend of mine who was also being bullied by him ended up finding out about it and passive/aggressively was able to out him before he had a chance to get rid of it. So he ended up being outright expelled. I never knew what he had in his locker, but it must have been really bad.
No, the big thing I hated about school was that middle school had the Angel Grove mindset of giving out detentions for getting bad grades on tests. This was NOT fictional, contrary to what people who watched Power Rangers might believe. There really were schools that did this. And it wasn't like I or most of my classmates even did that badly in school in the grand scheme of things (I got lucky and it never happened to me, but it happened to most of my classmates at some point). It's just that if you ever got a D or F on a test, you landed in detention (I think the electives were an exception to that, but it happened in the non-electives). Also, if you missed any homework assignment for ANY reason, you also could get detention (at least in seventh and eighth grade; I don't think they had that part in sixth).