Why do school ignore bullying?

Answer 1

Talk to someone like how you feel about bullying. provide guidance counselors and make the adults in your school to actually try to listen to the kids for once and provide good education in a peaceful community which i can see is not so soon.

Answer 2

They don't. They just think it's tattling. And they are SUPER busy. I know that it seems schools ignore it, but they just don't see it. There are kids in my school who have been bullied since kindergarten. They will most likely be bullied till they are out of school. Sad hey?

Answer 3

Schools often don't prevent bullying since they don't know what it is. Perhaps the teachers were sheltered from bullying, or they were bullied themselves but somehow repressed it or think it was a good thing.

The bullies themselves are usually quite practiced at it, and they bully covertly. The worst type of bullying is the emotional kind, and the bullies learn how to provoke reactions in others and keep the attention off of themselves. So the teachers think the victims are the aggressors and punish them.

Then there are teachers who somehow profit from the bullying. A coach may benefit, for instance, if the weakest player on a team is being bullied, if that causes the person to either shape up and become more aggressive, or they quit the team. Schools sometimes allow bullying for the same reason some prisons allow rape, and that is for control. The students can get by with doing things that teachers cannot do. A teacher might be mad at a particular family, and thus may set up their children to be bullied. If the teacher takes any direct action, they could be fired.

Then there are cases where the teachers and schools just have their hands tied. Perhaps there is so much bullying to deal with that the school cannot deal with it all. Factors like political correctness don't help either. What if members of a minority ethnic group at a particular school just happen to be bullying students outside that group? It would be hard to address that problem without any action taken being seen as racism or targeting one group of people, and the ones trying to address the bullying may lose their jobs. The bullies would be aware of such political implications and take advantage of those.