Can a teacher encourage/ignore bullying or even be a bully? Why?

[AnarchistFish]

I've had plenty of teachers actively bully me or encourage it.
Although the most depressing aspect of it was that if i ever told someone about it, they'd usually tell me that i was the one doing the bullying and give me detention or something.
For example:

This one guy had been bullying me for ages, along with the entire rest of my year. One day i got sick of his shit, so this time i punched him back (my dads advice) But he happened to be of Indian descent. So my dad got a phonecall saying i had started a racially charged incident.

The irony of it was that I was being bullied because I had moved from England to Scotland and 90% of my classmates hated me because of that, the other 10% wouldn't talk to me either because it was social suicide. So if anything I was the one subject to racism, the teachers knew this but i got in trouble anyway.

My brother had something like this. He would've been about 8 and there was this black guy in my class (we would have been about 11). Neither of them are properly nasty people or bullies, but this guy in my class called my brother 'white trash' (or something) and my brother replied with something about 'chocolate' and my brother was the one who got a letter sent home.
We're from England too, btw. Maybe it's a thing with this island...

This was regular occurance for me:
Me: "Help sir, these guys keep following me and bullying me. Could you make them go away?"
Teacher: "Just stay away from them"
Me: "Did you hear what I just said?"

I had this many a time... I remember one time I was walking around the playground on my own (everyone else would've been on the field) and these two kids came running out of nowhere; one held me whilst the other punched me in the stomach. The 'lunchtime supervisor' I went to said something along the lines of what you said.
Thank god those days are over.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

I've had plenty of teachers actively bully me or encourage it.
Although the most depressing aspect of it was that if i ever told someone about it, they'd usually tell me that i was the one doing the bullying and give me detention or something.
For example:

This one guy had been bullying me for ages, along with the entire rest of my year. One day i got sick of his shit, so this time i punched him back (my dads advice) But he happened to be of Indian descent. So my dad got a phonecall saying i had started a racially charged incident.

The irony of it was that I was being bullied because I had moved from England to Scotland and 90% of my classmates hated me because of that, the other 10% wouldn't talk to me either because it was social suicide. So if anything I was the one subject to racism, the teachers knew this but i got in trouble anyway.

My brother had something like this. He would've been about 8 and there was this black guy in my class (we would have been about 11). Neither of them are properly nasty people or bullies, but this guy in my class called my brother 'white trash' (or something) and my brother replied with something about 'chocolate' and my brother was the one who got a letter sent home.
We're from England too, btw. Maybe it's a thing with this island...

This was regular occurance for me:
Me: "Help sir, these guys keep following me and bullying me. Could you make them go away?"
Teacher: "Just stay away from them"
Me: "Did you hear what I just said?"

I had this many a time... I remember one time I was walking around the playground on my own (everyone else would've been on the field) and these two kids came running out of nowhere; one held me whilst the other punched me in the stomach. The 'lunchtime supervisor' I went to said something along the lines of what you said.
Thank god those days are over.

To be honest i think it's rooted in "Political Correctness GONE MADDDDD!!!one!!1!!"

Don't get me wrong, i think PCness is good to an extent, i like to think it's what we used to call "not being an insensitive douchebag"

But it seems like people are so scared of saying or doing anything, or even appear to condone the saying or doing anything that is unPC, that they'll do anything to appear PC.. Like when people were outraged by Jeremy Clarkson saying that the strikers should all be shot. That was clearly a satirical comment but everyone was calling for his blood.

anyyyway that's a bit off topic from bullying so i'll leave it there.

 

[Kuroneko97]

Ah, this thread reminds me of when a girl punched me in the stomach in front of the teacher, and when I pulled her hair, I got detention.

And that wasn't the worst of what I've gotten. But nobody really goes out of their way to bother me anymore, especially since I actually have friends now rather than some random group I'd always hang around.I think that's the main difference from my other years of school and High school.

I'm pretty sure my freshman seminar teacher is a bully. A lot of kids have been talking to each other about how their grades are lower now because instead of the "Down a letter grade a day" rule for late work she immediately brings it to a 50. And even when a student isn't talking or disrupting the class she reprimands them and even send them to the office. I heard someone talk about how she sent out five or six kids within 50 minutes of the class.

I stopped trying in her class, honestly.