My kids are in private school and they have a zero tolerance to this activity. I thought long and hard about this issue since I went to public schools and had to deal with bullies.
I don’t think bullying has any place whatsoever in school. Also, I don’t think I learned a damn thing by having to fight in school: I am glad my kids will be spared from it.
IMO, we need a zero tolerance policy to bullying and fighting in schools. School should be for learning academics and not for learning how to survive.
There are already zero-tolerance policies for bullying in schools. They don’t work. The good kids get punished; the bullies get a free vacation and don’t care.
> IMO, we need a zero tolerance policy to bullying and fighting in schools. School should be for learning academics and not for learning how to survive.
I agree. And any school that allows any student to assault anyone else should feel the full weight of a Vicarious Liability lawsuit. To be defended by the school Board of Trustees, the Principal, and the parents of the offender.
It wouldn’t take many of those to smarten people up.
I can't agree with you there. A a zero tolerance policy on bullying and fighting quickly turns into a zero tolerance policy on self defense. Not good.