But that approach "bully the bully" is just wrong,at least I think so. You are not "week" if you don't bully them back,you are being mature and showing them that you are not like them. You are being a bigger person.
asmuch as i would like to agree with you that rule may be at your school, there's no such thing as "handling things maturely" either you beat them or you get beat and that's how students are in my school, i've wanted and tried solving things maturely so many times last year and it never worked, this year i showed them by not letting myself lose to them and it worked.
either you, once, act like them and they leave you alone, or you try to be a more mature, bigger person and you get bullied constantly.
i chose for the first option after they did a certain disgusting thing to me but then again that's something you don't know and that's why you define me as a crazy "bully" or whatever