> Teachers and administrators know who the bullies are, they just don't do anything at all to stop them, You can't stop them, not even teachers and administrat

> Teachers and administrators know who the bullies are, they just don't do anything at all to stop them, You can't stop them, not even teachers and administrators. Bullying is psychologically tormenting as much as physical. Even the "physical" can't be stopped... punished afterward, but the deterrence effect is minimal and by that time the damage is already done anyway. Next year it will be a different bully that hasn't had the deterrence effect kick in. And the psychological? How are you supposed to stop gossiping or name-calling or any of the other forms? You could turn schools into prisons (haha, like they aren't already) and not stop that. This isn't difficult to understand. If we fail to understand it, that's because we don't want to understand it. You take every kid aged 5 to 18, drop them in an institutional building for 40 hours a week supervised by minimum wage workers who couldn't hack a real major, miseducate and propagandize to them... and you get bullying in there. It's not a function of any single one of these factors accept perhaps classroom size and school population size... but it's still a result. The only way to prevent it would be to do away with public education. If each child was supervised by an adult, or ratios were tiny (say 3 kids per adult), you wouldn't much have this. But that ratio is impossible with a public school system. And since you want the system, you can't do anything about the bullying. So we pretend that bullying is a problem solvable with half-assed non-solutions like this.