This. School causes bullying.
Whether or not they said it we'll never know, only going off of what her kid told us and said teacher denying it, but the teacher was fired months later after an investigation launched from other poor behavior on their part-reported to the school by several other parents, so there's weight to the kid's claims.
-"teachers sometimes bully students." or
- "teachers are allowed to bully students." or
- something else.
I've never been bullied by a peer or near-peer. That is, I was never in a situation that I could not handle. In my entire life I've only seen one case where another child was bullied by older boys and I knew that was bad.
BUT when you mentioned teachers, I thought of a middle-and-high school teacher/coach who held a grudge for reasons unknown. In response I skated by in his freshman biology class and, in general, wouldn't give him the time of day.
So yes, teachers can indeed act like bullies. But I think most people don't think of bullying per se as being something teachers or other authority figures do but instead something that one's peers or near-age peers do.
But of course if coaches etc get away with it, they are setting an example that some students will follow.
This is one of several ways in which school causes bullying.
The worst example I can think of is one teacher who's poor judgment resulted in decisions that were indistinguishable from abuse.
Do you think that the school might just be present in the equation and that this is a lazy and naive conclusion from a single correlation with no nuance or control statistics?
They leave large groups of children unsupervised for up to an hour at a time.
It should be obvious to any parent or anyone who’s had much to do with children what’s going to happen.