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Funkydog posted...

It's always been awful in my experience, not just a recent thing.

It's just ineffective.

I mean, a the nerdy kid with glasses got beat up by a bully. What do you do?

You suspend the bully. Then what? The bullies' friends now see the nerdy kid with glasses as the jerk who dared get the school involved because he's not man enough to fight his own battles, and he got their friend suspended. So if they weren't bullying him at first, they're probably going to start then.

In fact, pretty much anything the school does will likely end up making the bullying victim even more a target.

The problem is that schools tend to treat instances of bullying as isolated incidents instead of seeing them as a whole. Like a kid got beat up one day, or things like that. But the real problem is the microagressions. Little things, pushes and shoves, every single day. That's the day-to-day reality, and each particular incident is just not serious enough to do anything about.

But then what do you do about it?

The principal comes in the class to have a talk and threaten the bullies? Then the victim becomes a snitch who went to tell and so he gets bullied even more.
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