I fought the bullying thing for my daughter her freshman year in high school (about 800 kids). The school did nothing to the kids because it was an up and coming area that didn’t want the school labeled. The principal and vice-principal did nothing. One football coach caught some of his boys bullying her and he ran them until they puked (the only person who did squat). He then had me come to a practice and just stand there while he and I stood on the side-lines and he very openly pointed them out to me (I am a pretty big/fit fellow). The boys left her alone.
Finally, one day she fought back and the school wanted to expel her and file charges. The bullies had their story straight and lured her to an area with no cameras on the pretense of making-up. One boy, one of the former players I mentioned, saw the whole thing and voluntarily went to the principal and told them the truth of what happened. They dropped things against my daughter and the girls got nothing and they just brushed it under the rug.
After a tense unannounced meeting with me and the principal (where he called the police on me) the chief of our semi-rural hamlet showed up and told me to go home and told the principal to get his stuff together and stop ignoring the problem. Chief said the school was notorious about not reporting bullying issues nor ever calling them. He said it has gotten worse as more urbanites flee the big city to the south of us and bring their snot-nosed kids up here.
Next day she was in a private school and I took my younger son (2 grades back), who had no problems out as well. Sent several editorial to the local paper but none every got published. F__k them all. We moved out of that area a couple years later (for that and other reasons the town sucked) and I burn them in effigy everytime their name comes up.
Oh boy, is that ever true.