Yes, kids do need to learn how to cope, but it is more important to teach kids not to be the bullies in the first place. I still hate the kids that beat the crap out of me in the football locker rooms for fun in middle school. For a while, I didn’t know how to cope, so I didn’t at all and just assumed that they were justified and I was worthless. I wish I’d have known how to cope, but I wouldn’t have that problem if the kids were taught how to be decent human beings and not beating up the kid that already had a broken arm (me). Either way, bullying sucks and I’ll stop whoring for attention.