kengr

I'm not sure about turning me into a victim (I was already), but I believe that they really and truly thought that if I "ignored" them, they'd go away.

When in reality, things would escalate until the victim *couldn't* ignore it.

I'm also fairly certain that a lot of this comes from teachers and staff not wanting to have to sort out who did what when there are conflicting stories.

Especially when parents would come swooping in complaining that their "little angel" couldn't *possibly* have done anything wrong.

Or worse yet, that there was nothing wrong with picking on the other kid, he "deserved" it because [x].

Of course, having enough people to actually *supervise* the kids at recess (and *doing* so!) would eliminate that problem.

Maybe video surveillance (with audio!) might help. But then you have to regulate how long the recordings can be kept. And what *else* can be done with them.