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The first thing I would do is take away the Teacher's Lounges. I'd have the teachers and administrators, eating, drinking, peeing, and pooping in the same places as those kids. They need to quit isolating themselves and integrate. Then they'll see a bit more of what's going on.

Take out the P.E. Teacher's office and have him/her out there in the locker room. Keep an eye out for inappropriate behavior.

Authority figures should be near omnipresent so that the bullies don't feel relaxed and empowered.

This makes no sense. Plus you wouldn't need to have all the teachers/administrators in some of the same places as the students given that some schools already have them in places like the lunchroom and school bathrooms usually aren't student exclusive anyhow.

Wouldn't that in essence be a violation of privacy?

Bullies will feel relaxed and empowered so long as they got a crowd/click willing to stand around and do nothing about their actions.

When I went to school, teachers never used the boys bathroom. That is why a lot of bad stuff can happen there.

You are surrounded by dozens of your male classmates. Perfect place for hazing, being ganged up on while you are changing, and you can have human shields block the view of adults.

That is why there needs to be more adults in the places where bullying activity is allowed free reign.

While that may be true my mentioning had to do with the prospect that some people might not be comfortable with having an adult watch them switch out of their clothes and into their gym uniforms.

It's not something to be held solely over the adults though like I said the kids spectating need to be more responsible and conscientious about seeing someone that could be them under different circumstances getting picked on or assaulted.

I should mention that at every school that I went to, the restrooms were for use by everyone in the school. Teachers, students, and staff alike used the same restrooms. Didn't stop the boys' restrooms at my middle school from having turd on the walls or the girls' restroom being strewn with thrown rolls of toilet paper.

And it is something to be held over the adults. Children and teens are required to be in school to learn. It is the adult's responsibility to ensure that the children and teens attending have a safe learning environment.

Kind of meaningless though if the kids aren't interested in learning and don't wanna do nothing but cause misery for others, the teachers and the schools, along with simply treating school as a spot to hang out (whenever they choose to go) with their friends and what not.

There are plenty of kids wanting to learn and wanting to have a successful future. It is the adult's responsibility to separate those who don't out.

There are plenty of kids wanting to learn and wanting to have a successful future. It is the adult's responsibility to separate those who don't out.

I never quite understood the idea of messing up a bathroom in such a way.

Oh, trust me, teachers and admins would love it if it were that simple. The problem is that there are these pesky things called laws which require students to be provided with an education up to a certain age. In at least some states in the U.S. that has made expelling students a tricky and difficult process typically requiring an extensive paper trail. Even things like forcibly transferring a student to an alternative school (if that is an available option) typically can't be done without good cause and due process.

I can't say I know much about most of the bullies' present day lives, but the ones I do know have improved as people in my eyes.