Anti-bullying policies at schools aren’t meant to protect victims. But they aren’t meant to protect perpetrators either.
They are instead meant to protect the school administration, notably from having to actually assign fault in bullying situations. They can simply say “zero tolerance,” punish all parties equally, and wash their hands of it.
This should be pinned at the top.
It’s lawsuits, not reputation, the administration is worried about.
Teachers, however, actually care about human development, and attempt the impossible job of steering students in the right direction.
The teachers at my school sometimes bullied the students. I wasn’t one of them, but I can’t imagine how horrible it must have been for those kids. They were targeted for their appearance and poor grades by kids and adults alike. Yeah, they were cringe kids whose moms dressed them and did their homework for them, but come on.
Anyway, bad (and abusive) teachers exist and it’s not just an apathetic admin team that causes this issue. It’s not always about liability or reputation, some adults are just awful to kids because their own lives suck and/or they get off on the power.
Like that kid who got kicked off the swim team because another student engraved the n word on him
And then a school shooting happens and the reputation is more than tarnished
In my town, a kid and his sister were bullied to the point of the kid shooting up the school. The principal that ignored it all is being hailed as a hero for being shot along with the bully of the sister.
Allegedly, the kid was also a piece of shit beforehand, so being bullied isn’t really a defense of him.
The conversation about doing something about the rampant bullying at the school lasted a week, maybe, before turning back to meaningless platitudes. More memorials, more fundraising, more blue shit to show support, but nothing about stopping the root cause.
Same as it ever was
Back in the 90s, my middle school had a policy of punishing any students involved in a fight. If you threw a punch, you were in trouble. If you got hit, you were in trouble. The official line being that it would be unfair to punish two students brawling simply because the teacher didn’t arrive until the last punch was thrown. But in practical terms, it meant you had a huge disincentive to report being attacked because it would amount to a confession of guilt.
Found this out very personally when a kid in a foul mood decided to start marching through the hallway and swinging at anyone standing in his way. He struck three kids on his way out of the building (including myself). When this got up to the principal’s office, the principal was forced to explain to three different sets of parents why their children were in trouble because one (older, btw) child went on a rampage.
In that particular incident, the offending kid was suspended and ultimately moved to a disciplinary school. But the policy wasn’t changed, just exempted in this particular instance.
It’s about school reputation? I thought it was about dominance hierarchy, the same reason boys’ sports is a higher priority than any other education program world-wide.
We just like our beefy kids and wish we could toss the defects down a pit like the Spartans.
I don’t believe that’s true.
Maybe it’s true in American private schools where you need to chose which school to give money to, but where I live schools don’t have reputation to care about. You just go to the one closest.
I was expelled for being bullied for being queer
Clearly it’s your fault for being bullied.
Did you read my comment? I am not claming that bullying does not exist.
We don’t discovered tarnish so bully
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Well I can definitely say the word “former” is the only worthwhile word in this entire post.
“I hate and avoided the word ‘constipation.’ We have occasional irregularity.” No, you’re just full of shit.
I have a former school principal in my family and he is very similar in attitude to you. Interesting that it might not just be cops who are all bastards.
Congrats on dropping the ball and never improving, I’m sure the “weird kid” students appreciated the lack of support.
You were part of the problem. I’m glad that’s past tense.
There are some cases where kids will single out the “weird kid” but that is far more rare
If you happen to be the weird kid, it’s not rare at all.
You are the thing this post is making fun of.
