Sounds bad Mrzzy - I think that the kids im my school tended to regard the teachers as the enemy rather than each other - the few who tied to bully were usually ignored - we all came from the more or less same background with the same problems
The worst you could do at our school was support the wrong team (Liverpool or Everton) and if you did you were pitied rather than intimidated.
I hated sports and supported neither - I told a big Liverpool supporter this once and he asked me "What are you, a ***** atheist?"

I believe most people who share my (non) beliefs are "sort of" pacifists - you wouldn't use violence but it was there as a standby
My father was like that - he wouldn't strike a fellow human being, let alone shoot one, but in the 1930s he went to Spain and shot Fascists - i think that upset him more than the time he spent being mentally tortured in a fascist prison as a prisoner of war.
Jim