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Why should the school setting, where kids are compelled to be present 5 days a week, be considered less significant and less subject to "laws to make general verbal and psychological abuse illegal", than the employment setting?
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Because the actors are minors. Which is the same reason we don't try juveniles in adult courts.
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I understand Atticus' frustration that schools get blamed and get held liable where there was nothing you could do. But that calls for some limitations on liability, not for a do-nothing, kids-will-be-kids attitude.
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It calls for bars on liability claims against school officials for intervening to stop bullying. A parent of a bully should be barred from whining and hiring some bottom feeder to sue when the teachers shames the little bastard in front of other students for picking on a weaker kid.
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Hell, many people were similarly frustrated that a major corporation or law firm could be held liable because an officer, partner, or even a low-level employee engaged in boys-will-be-boys activity (that was retermed, and correctly termed, sexual harassment).
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Again, they're adult boys. Apples and okra.
