Sometimes I am glad I dont have kids. A young fella I know about 12 , very quiet started highschool and ended up on the wrong end of a gang or group of indigenous youths in the first month. They had a reputation for picking on kids, then filming themselves fighting the victim and posting it up on social media. The kids father got involved when he found out his son was being bullied and the school counsellors were very apologetic and said off the record they were tying to find ways to get the main perptrators moved out of school.
Well they picked on this young fella one time too many and he fought back(being none of these gutless adults, teachers, counsellors quoting frigging rules were assisting him in any way) . No one on either side was really hurt but he was suspended with the other kid. Apparently school is like prison, whether you sneeze or get sneezed on, same punishment for everyone.
Have to say, sorely dissappointed in the school system, seems a lot different from when I went through it. Not that it was great then, but at least some semblance of fair play existed.