One of the serious issues concerning school life is bullying and it is common for the bigger children to usually pick on the weaker children or children that are different such as stutterers. The weak children fail to retaliate back at the bad behavior caused to them because they feel they will be unable to tackle their seemingly stronger peers. The kids picked on to be bullied are usually lacking in some trait or the other; sometimes they are physically wanting and sometimes they have some disability. And a peek into any school life can reveal that stutterers are the most targeted by the bullies.

Stuttering is not a disability but can be considered to be a deterrent to fluent speaking. This fact works both in favor of and against the stutterers, the latter being the most prominent. Being labeled as a mere speech disorder and not a disability, it gives the stutterer a bit of confidence to realize that he/she is in no way lesser than other people. But the same confidence is reduced when they become the object of ridicule in any place in their surroundings. When this happens even with grown-ups, it is only expected that the school bullies follow suit.

Since stutterers are made fun of in every part of the society, school bullies tend to consider it as a joke and treat fellow student stutterers as clowns to laugh at them. The stuttering student who will already be low on confidence will merely have to laugh it off ignoring his true feelings because of the stronger and verbally fluent bullies. Moreover, the bullies tend to show a stronger side to them and this creates a sense of fear in the stuttering child. Because of the low confidence level within the child caused by stuttering, he/she feel they are incapable of standing against strong opponents and hence have no option but to laugh along with them.

Although these situations may seem like trivial incidents, it is capable of hurting the stuttering child to a great extent thus reducing the overall confidence of the child. To put an end to all this, the society must learn to respect the feelings of stutterers and try to help them recover from the problem instead of mocking at them. Once the society's outlook on the stutterers changes, it will automatically reflect on the school kids and bullying against stutterers can be minimized to a great extent even if not completely.