I was bullied at school in Perth Western Australia. Those incidents were severe and there were easily more than 100 occasions when I was verbally and physically assaulted. When we sat our end of year exams, and the teacher asked one student to hand out the exam papers, that student scrunched up my exam paper and that teacher, watched while I did my exam on mangled paper.   These are criminals acts and when teachers are also directing derogatory language at young children, they responsible as well. If a teacher doesn't respond to the bullying complaints of a student or actively monitors the lunch areas of students, they should be held criminally liable, especially when they are preferring to spend their lunch hour in the comfortable lunch room. No one should damage the innocent young mind of a child, especially while they are learning. The damage this causes while their brain hasn't hardwired scars them for life. When groups of delinquent teenagers direct insults at students 5 years younger than them, on a daily basis, this gets dismissed as kids messing around in the playground. Bullying is a serious criminal act.   I know what child exploitation is, one incident happened to me when I was 13, I got off the bus, after school one day, it was really hot and a guy in a car said he was a parent to another student at Hale school and I he gave me a lift home, because it was so hot, he then parked the car, and we drank cans of soda, making small talk, but then he started feeling me up and I asked to be driven home.   As an adult I am now able to understand the two types of abuse. The first one, bullying under the careless supervision of teachers. The second form which occurred through the exploitation of me as a child. It was the bullying that scarred me and caused me to have low esteem and develop an anxiety disorder and have borderline anxiety. That paedo guy was nice, very hands on, but he didn't assault me. I didn't become affected by it, I think of it as being nothing.   But It was the school, it subjected me to exploitation as a child. Its the bullying, it doesn't get the criminal recognition it deserves. You're talking about the fragile innocence of a child, a school needs a zero tolerance policy on bad language directed at other students. If students offend other students then a no contact rule between 2 students needs to be established, which would lead to suspension of the offending student. The most effective policies are ones that operates from day 1. ... View more