Another good point to examplify the cruelty kids can heap on one another. Adult civility is years away from being instilled into them and hitting below the belt, whether on truth or a made up lie, kids will go as far as their parents are willing to let them. On school grounds, away from home, they KNOW the leash is off and they'll push that envelope as hard and far as the teachers will let them...Thats pretty far when the teachers are popping Advil in the staff lounge with their coffee just to get through the day.
Ahhh, but thats the garden the NEA, Athiests, and ACLU cultivated for them. They're no longer schools but mini prisons and war zones.