Reminiscing about her middle school years brings up painful memories for Bandera local Rhenea, now 20 years old. She vividly recalls sitting in gym class on her first day in a new school and being suddenly surrounded by a large group of students who yelled demeaning insults and tried to instigate a fight.“I cried,” she admitted. “It was very scary and it hurt my feelings pretty badly because it was the first time I was ever treated like that. Not being liked really weighed heavily on me. It affected how I viewed myself.”When their five-year-old son came home from his ...