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LonelyStoner posted...

Teachers should definitely be given more power to intervene in these shitty circumstances. I cant say that, in that position, I would be able to ignore such behavior. Teachers arent cut off from telling other teachers that one shitty kid and his friends are bullying another kid who did nothing to them. There are an embarrassing amount of teachers who dont care about the kids they are supposed to be teaching.

Most teachers care. It's just...what can you do?

A group of kids is bullying a student. You can report it to the administration, but what will the administration do? Nothing, probably. Odds are, the administration will blame the teacher for not being able to control the bullies. The administration is scared to death of the parents of the bullies, and that's the truth.

And as a teacher, if you know that reporting something will just result in you (i.e. the teacher doing their job!) having a target on your back for daring to report something and giving more work to the administration, then, well, sometimes you devolve into self-preservation and keep your mouth shut. School administrations spend the majority of their time worried about keeping *that parent* happy.