I was initially enrolled in a private school, and my first grade teacher was a terrible human being. Not a nonce, but she was really emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive towards students and notorious for this fact. When I was in her class, she actively pursued a team up with a boy who hated me to co-bully me together. This came to a head when the boy pushed me down a full flight of concrete stairs and her response was to laugh and give him a high five. She described the event as "hilarious and awesome."

When my parents and I met with the principal about this, the principal said that they were aware and that it was not acceptable, but that there was also nothing they could do about it because the teachers family was the school's primary funding family and if they fired her, the school would go bankrupt before the end of the semester. This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman's career. She is, last time I checked, still employed there and still bullying children.

idk. they shouldn't have to do this. children shouldn't have to be their own protectors.