Beaten down by the SF Unified School District.

[Reader Rabbit]

10. This makes me very sad.

As a teacher, I've had several experiences with administrators who won't take steps to curb bullying—often in spite of yearly anti-bullying campaigns! For the life of me, I cannot understand what they're thinking or what their motivations are. We even had one assistant principal who tried to write up a teacher for documenting the chronic bullying one of her SPED kids was going through. It was obscene.

One year we had a fantastic principal who expelled a chronic bully. His parents went straight to the district office and complained, and they overrode the principal and plopped the kid right back down at our school. The parents of one of his primary victims then hired a lawyer and threatened to sue the school district. All-of-a-sudden, district administrators were fine with the bully being expelled. Go figure!