Rob not only there those thing happened even in public schools
lucky me after grade 1 after I'd a whack a chair over a teacher for can't keep her hands off of me when trying to learn, always been the big ape in the room for was 3-4 heads taller than other kids. word was out not mess with me. on the school soccer field the small kids would come up and ask for help for the higher grades with bullying them. i ask what one was it an went over to them with a flying hip check, knocked to the ground and said how you like that so pick on someone your own size, an called over who ask for help, then said next time would be my foot and fist if i hear you bother person beside me, i'll look for you. that had opened the door for other kids to come forward and they did. after a week of this a group of bully's tried to gang up me on me in the wash room at end of school, i just got my self in a corner and the biggest kid tried first and with a upper cut to jaw an his mouth was bleeding all over self and floor for bit inside his mouth, the rest ran away. i helped him stop the bleeding and clean up floor, next day we're friends for his ran away and we became the guardians of school yard that year till he moved.
strange how things work out in the non elite circles for no money involed just pride doing the right thing.
In Florida cheaping out on Surfside Condo building, not my style.