We have a case locally where a high school boy assaulted a female classmate then tried a second time and was expelled. The boys parents were prominent county employees and they waged a campaign to have him reinstated and were successful.
The female student had a personal protection order against the boy. The school apparently feels that this doesn't apply when he is in school and it was the girls responsibility to avoid the boy.
Shit some kids pull would get them kicked out of even a very permissive and/or dysfunctional workplace. On the off chance it didn’t, adults can at least try to find another job, and likely can manage to if they really want to escape the most-unpleasant personalities. They’ve got options.
Kids are stuck with the same assholes and abusers for years.
Add an environment on par with the most infamous workplaces (“you have to ask me to go take a piss. I may say no and there’s little you can do about it”), expectations stricter than most workplaces (“here’s some stuff for you to do at home tonight. I expect it to be done tomorrow, regardless of life circumstances. Same the next day, and the next, all damn year”) and… man, no wonder many adults have nightmares about school for years and years afterward, even if they weren’t exactly bullied.
This right here is why I'd never send my kids to a traditional school. It's absolutely horrifying what we make our most vulnerable, impressionable, and emotionally immature members of society go through.
I used to be a school teacher and quit because I could not stand to see the institutional cruelty. The crazy part to me is when I try to talk about this to other adults they just look at me like I'm crazy. Because it's free childcare. And, "well, I turned out just fine", spoken by an anxious, unhealthy drone who hates their life of quiet desperation.
The female student had a personal protection order against the boy. The school apparently feels that this doesn't apply when he is in school and it was the girls responsibility to avoid the boy.
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/educati...