What should schools do about bullying ?
I was bullied throughout school, and the school didn’t know how to deal with it. Instead of suspending them and putting them in a different class from me, they did nothing, just had a little talk with them (without involving the parents). What the school should do is suspend the person/people in question and have a conversation with their parents. When they go back to school, they should be put in a different class from the person who is being bullied and warn the bully to stay away. If that doesn’t work, the parents of the bullied child should send them to a different school, or do home schooling – one or the other. If the child is going though hell being bullied, sending them to a different school is sometimes the only way out. Unfortunately, my parents refused to do this for me, they said I needed to stay put and stand up to them. It was me against more or less the whole of my year group, so that was pretty much impossible. I just made myself invisible for a few years until the bull