Yes, absolutely. There always will be bullies in school. If you learn in school how to defend yourself #1, it builds confidence, #2, it stays with you all of your life; when you are 25 years old and end up walking through the parking lot and somebody jumps out at you, instinct takes back over. If you paid good attention when your were young learning how to defend yourself, you very well should be able to defend yourself as an adult and even if you learned it as a kid. So it stays with your whole life. Kids also deal with violence and deal with other children picking on them and they should be able to defend themselves. The closest thing that you are going to find for basic self-defense for children is going to be a martial art school or any branch of judo, a basic karate, tae kwon do or aikido. If you learn a martial art, you will learn to defend yourself against a basic bully. I believe all the children should be pushed to learn because it will build their self confidence.
