> What about the things that happen between children outside their homes, like at a neighborhood park?
I absolutely think it's relevant whether student A punched student B in the face at the park yesterday, when they're dealing with a dispute where student A seems to have done something that's in a grey area to student B. "Playful" jostling that student B doesn't appreciate is very different with the context of the prior punch in the face.
Of course, the problem schools face is that objective facts about what's happened between students-- in or out of school-- are frequently not known.
> Maybe schools should mind their own business instead of becoming totalitarian states that use permissive precedents to dig into everyone’s business.
Someone1234 posed some good questions above. I don't have all the answers.
I endured nearly a decade of terrible bullying because it was literally no one's business, though. Would not recommend.
