Veggiegurl,
I've been thinking about you today. You said that your teacher didn't even stop them from what they were doing.
A teacher is supposed to be a guide and rollmodel. Your teacher seemed to have failed at that this time. Maybe they weren't really aware of what was going on.

Would it be possible for you to have a talk with that teacher and explain what was happening and how it made you feel? It's a teachers responibility to uphold dicipline and order in a classroom.

Wish I could give you a for real hug.
Heidu

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin