I had a similar problem. The school was not at all interested in reining in a particular student who was particularly violent.
After several complaints, the line that finally worked on the woman principal of the school was “Do you want to teach the young women at this school that they need to tolerate violence from men, because this violence is acceptable?” That is when she finally got off her butt and did something about it.
Fortunately, it was a Catholic school, so she could do something about it.
I had talked my head off about discipline in general and bullying in general, but none of that worked until I gave it a feminist twist.
Hey, I’m not proud. That was the only tool I found that would work, so I used it!
Hey, whatever it takes.
Use their own weapons against them.
It was THEIR idea in the first place.
Good thinking on your part.
smart approach. Turning the worm into a different ethical issue usually wakes them up a bit. It’s offering them an ‘out’ to the sweaty defense they are cornered into by a singular policy. Win-win
I went to a Catholic school. The nuns allowed no horseplay in the school. Rulers and pointers would leave a nice bruise. Kids were bullies. The bullying was done on the way home and in vacant lots down the street.