Well, schools now all seem to have zero tolerance policies, but it still seems to happen. I was in junior high when most of the bullying happened and I was a Freshman in High School when this boy was harassing me. The boy sat next to me in biology class, which is when a lot of it happened. So I asked the teacher if he would please make a new seating arrangement to separate him from me, explaining exactly what he was doing/saying. He chuckled and said he was just a boy being a boy and that there would always be people I didn't get along with and that I needed to learn to deal with that, etc. Though he DID make a new seating arrangement...and put the boy right in back of me where he was even closer than before. Then he started snapping my bra, sticking pencils in my ears, leaning forward and whispering things in my ears. I came home every day in tears. It didn't end until my brother got so mad he slammed the kid against the lockers in the hallway and a teacher saw it, but knowing my brother was not prone to such tactics, asked what was wrong and the whole story came out. They were brought to the principal who told the boy he was lucky we hadn't pressed charges against him and to quit while he was ahead. I don't think the original teacher to whom I reported it was even reprimanded, though he should have been. But it's so hard to tell someone about those things at that age...it's embarrassing, and the fact that it was a male teacher.
Oh, he told me it was a real "chick thing" to drive around without brakes that worked . . . 
