There are wide varying degrees of bullying. Plus, some kids might have a lot of other terrible things going on in their life besides.
I believe you talk it down in the classroom and from the administration. I’m not against action being taken when it is observed. I just think our moral bastions the education system operatives these days, are utterly clueless as to how to respond in a reasoned manner.
Let’s remember that these are the same people who find it a-okay to teach young children to be tolerant of homosexuality, when they don’t even know all the secrets to heterosexual norms yet.
Look at our zero tolerance problem, “Hey he pointed a finger at me. It looked just like a gun.” “You can’t attend school here anymore...”
Talk about zero tolerance... how about something to address zero reason.