[brightlancer]

From my chair as a parent, I could not get teachers to care about one of my kids being bullied in class, and it was the administration that finally did something.

I have now dealt with dozens of public school teachers and while some were good, most were ambivalent and there were more garbage teachers than good ones.

The refrain of It's Not The Teachers rings hollow. It is the teachers. It may also be the administration, the parents, the community, the politicians, everybody, but it is still the teachers.

[IOT_Apprentice]

You should have started with administration first. Teach aren’t equipped or provided solutions for bullying and many are dealing with acting out or violent children. See the case of the teacher shot by her violent student a few months ago who kept warning school administrators who did nothing, even on the day of the shooting.

[JoeJonathan]

Sure. But it’s pretty easy to get dejected when you have a large class full of maniacs and no support.

Also, people here should stop generalizing their experience in California to the country at large. MA and NJ have pretty good public schools, some of which are in dense and diverse regions of each state.