> Why do school allow bullying? <
I’ll field that one. I’m a retired public school teacher (see post #29). Things changed in my school district around the year 2000. Student and staff safety was no longer a priority. Instead, it was all about the numbers.
Principals got bonuses and promotions when they kept suspension rates low. So violent bullies were no longer suspended, let alone expelled. And the state passed laws “protecting” special ed students. It became very difficult to suspend those students, and they knew it.
Oh, and staff members were forbidden to call the city police. That would mean bad publicity for the district. Can’t have that!
What I can’t quite figure out is parent reaction. Parents rarely called the police, and even more rarely sued the district.
Could the parents be afraid that their bullied kid would be targeted in the neighborhood as well? I dunno. Maybe.
Your post really explains a lot of what is going on in the schools. There is a local high school, in a good area, that had at least six rapes that we heard about and apparently there were even more. The school refused to report the guys to the police. They even threatened the girls not to report them and one girl got suspended for complaining to the school. It often boils down to power and money.
Not to mention that the system finds it useful to sacrifice one or two children to the bullies just so they leave the other kids alone.