teaching kids to box was a good way to control aggression and show them on a gut level that disciplined force beats naked ape brawling. You can't always see that discipline from a guy walking around so, you learn to rein in your mouth.
My granddad was taught to box in LA public schools, when he wound up working in the California Conservation Corps in the Depression he got called out for being Mexican by a white racist. The ex-Army sarge who was foreman called on them to shake hands and when the racist wouldn't he had them box in front of everybody. My granddad was a skinny lightweight ("Seco Flaco") but he beat that guy dizzy. The foreman stopped the fight and told the racist to shake hands with my granddad. "I aint shaking hands with no Mex" he said. The foreman told my granddad, "Knock him out."
End of [swearvomiting] with Mexicans in that barracks.
If boxing is tooo violent, there's good results from learning a tackle and pin.
"I too was bullied throughout school. Tried to stand up for myself like you, but the violence escalated. 1v1 became everyone v me...It got so bad that I after someone tried to set me on fire, I was taken out of school to be home schooled. "
I hope they were sent to prison.