The news about the fact that students involved in bullying would get severely punished soon began spreading around the academy amongst students.
You know these kinds of news aren't hard to spread around. All that was needed was for one student to hear it, then he or she would tell another student, then that student would tell another student, and before they know it, the news had spread around.
Students involved in bullying began hearing about the news, but they were finding it hard to beileve...they chose not to believe it. They'd be getting punished for bullying students soon, it just sounded absurd to their ears.
Why? Because they'd been doing these for years and had been going scot free, so the fact that they'd be getting punished soon sounded so absurd to them.
Many of the bullies laughed at the news the moment they heard it. But not all the bullies in the academy considered the news to be so absurd the moment they heard it.
