Am I Overreacting?
For context, I'm in 8th grade in a small private school, the only school in my area that gives middle schoolers recess. My school also goes from toddler daycare all the way through 8th grade, and this is the only school I've ever gone to.
Anyways, today the teachers were all offered a very nice lunch prepared by volunteers, since it's teacher appreciation week. Because of this, all the classrooms were watched by adult volunteers (mostly parents). Grades 1 through 8 were all outside, having a rare shared recess. A bunch of kids in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade had already gotten on my nerves earlier during my class's PE time, when they chased me around the soccer field yelling "HI!" repeatedly.
So, of course, I wasn't surprised when these same kids got back at it halfway through recess. There were about 15 of them, and they chased me for a solid 5 minutes before I got too tired to keep running (I get tired and get cramps really fast). I was just expecting the kids to circle around me and keep yelling hi. But they didn't. No, instead, they started GRABBING ME and trying to RIP MY HOODIE OFF MY BODY. A few kids, the ones who started this, were yelling "RIP HER HOODIE OFF! GET IT OFF!", and they CLEARLY didn't care if they ripped my hoodie.
This hoodie is one of two that I wear every day, its a plain red hoodie, and is my main comfort object, so you can probably imagine how upset this made me.
I wasn't able to shove them away very well, since there were a ton of kids and some of them were grabbing onto my hoodie sleeves, so I couldn't move my arms much. My best friend quickly started trying to pry the kids off of me, followed soon after by another girl in my class, but it didn't help much, and the kids started grabbing my best friend too, but it wasn't as bad as it was for me.
A parent in charge of one of the 1st through 3rd grade classes quickly saw what was going on, and started making her way over. By the time she reached the hoard, I and my friends had managed to get away from them, and most of the kids had lost interest, though a few did follow us.
The parent came up to me soon after, and me and my best friend explained what happened (although not in enough detail, since we were still processing what just happened). She made one kid apologize for punching and kicking us, and the two other kids who started this got in a tiny bit of trouble, but not much, since she's a parent and not a teacher, and she didn't feel comfortable reprimanding the kids more.
The worst part is that I also told my mom, dad, and both of my teachers (again, not in enough detail, since i still was processing), and their general response was "Oh, that's... interesting."
I did better explain to my mom what happened, and she did actually understand and respond apropoately, but we can't do anything right now, since it's the weekend.
I'm considering going to the teachers of the two classrooms of the kids who did this, because the "you shouldn't do that, that's not okay," the 3 kids got (mind you, 3 out of 15 kids doing this) was not enough. The only problem is that I dont interact with those teachers much, meaning I'd have to talk to my own teachers to get permission to go down to these classrooms and talk to their teachers. I know that its pretty easy for me to get upset and angry, so I'm wondering if I'm overreacting?