I think this is an issue where it’s important to have a balance of considerations, safety among them. Everyone is bullied at some point. I don’t accept the term as defining a student so much as a student’s action. Kid’s act out, they aren’t bad, it’s natural and healthy to expect mistakes of judgement. I feel just as threatened by schools expanding even more control over my child as much as I worry about peers.

The tendency to insulate kids to the world for the parent’s sake of mind, the district’s liability and political gain, can cause them to be unprepared for life. Institutional micromanaging of every little social detail in a child’s development can be just as damaging as the risks we’re trying to avoid.

People have always been bullied to an extent. There are tragic exceptions but most cases are not so sensational today that we need drastic legislation that creates even more “zero tolerance” policies. No thanks.

Perhaps your editorial was written tongue in cheek and I didn’t get the joke but I can assure you sir, bullying is no joke.