An assaulted person could have pressed criminal charges.
I know of no school in the USA that would allow a bully to beat a fellow student without consequence.
They can rape fellow students in VA and the father of the victim gets arrested.
> I know of no school in the USA that would allow a bully to beat a fellow student without consequence. <
Oh my goodness. That happens every single day, in urban schools at least. As I noted in my post #8, I taught for decades at an urban public high school. Yes, you are mostly right about the old days. Back then, most (but not all) administrators would take action.
No longer. It just isn’t done, in my experience. Today’s administrators are all about PR, and all about making their own records look good. Administrators with low suspensions rates get bonuses and promotions. Those who try to do their jobs and suspend troublemakers will find themselves sidelined and demoted.
Then there are the state laws that make it difficult to suspend special ed students. In my state, such kids can only be suspended 10 times in a school year (I think that’s the number). So even a good principal will hesitate suspending a bully special ed kid. You’ve got to save those days for when the kid brings a gun to school, sells drugs, or something like that.
(Sorry for the rant.)
You are very naive.