Students should not be protected from the law

Bullying is an extremely bad problem in schools. Students kill themselves over it. Students suffer deeply. But almost NOTHING is being done about it!!!! Teachers tend to shrug it off. Excuses for doing so range from “they need to toughen up” to “it’s not a problem”. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!!! People don’t blink an eye at it. But then they are SO SURPRISED when a student kills themselves or shows up to school with a gun.

This problem is not taken seriously enough. Teachers do little to nothing about it. But they should not be the law in schools. THE LAW SHOULD! A student that physically hurts another student shouldn’t have detention or suspension, they should have assault charges! If that student did so outside the school they would be charged for assault, so why are students protected from legal punishment when it happens in school. There is no difference. Assault is assault, no matter where it happens.

And what about bullying too? People may say “bullying isn’t illegal”. Bullying
is harassment. Harassment is illegal. Bullies need to face harassment charges.

What is suspension? That is no punishment! That is a vacation! Bullies that get suspended don’t care. They see it as a day off. Detention is no different. People don’t care too much about having some free time taken away. Students don’t care too much about being expelled either. They see it as a year off or just go to another school and bully students there. This is the only form of punishment if any at all. Usually bullying and harassment problems are ignored, by everyone. Everyone wonders why bully victims don’t seek help. Maybe because they never receive any help when they try to seek it. Because there is no help, there is no hope. Students resort to suicide or violence. Students try to solve their own problems. They shouldn’t have to! They should be able to report to the police these crimes. But since schools are left to take care of the problem, the police won’t do anything. But yet the teachers won’t either. Yeah some teachers do help, but not enough. And since punishment at schools is less than a slap to the wrist (more like a poke to the side of the head: just an annoyance), I do not think it should be left to a teacher to punish for these crimes. They are crimes! Crimes that should be handled by the law! Student bullies need to stop being protected by schools. Bullying is assault and harassment. Assault and harassment are crimes. They need to face the legal consequences for their actions. Maybe we might have less school shootings and suicides.