The kids were each given small rations of food and water, and they were allowed - indeed encouraged - to fight over them. Bullying was considered a virtue
The second time Elon went to veldskool, he was .. up to six feet ... and had learned some judo. So veldskool wasn't so bad. "I realized by then that if someone bullied me, I could punch them very hard in the nose, and then they wouldn't bully me again.
In the telling of this place where bullying was an expectation, the part where Elon would have said "but I didn't bully anyone myself" is absent from the narrative.
The second time Elon went to veldskool, he was .. up to six feet ... and had learned some judo. So veldskool wasn't so bad. "I realized by then that if someone bullied me, I could punch them very hard in the nose, and then they wouldn't bully me again.
In the telling of this place where bullying was an expectation, the part where Elon would have said "but I didn't bully anyone myself" is absent from the narrative.