Teachers are no help. Though present, they don't see or hear most of what happens in their classrooms. The punishment they would receive would be nothing, or close enough to it to be counted so. A light lecture wouldn't be sufficient compared to the triple amount of emotional pain I would receive later. Physical violence is nothing I fear in school, yet verbal harassment is just as bad or worse a fear for me.
Verbal harassment happens throughout the school.
I see and experience it every day. I have feared to go to school many days because of this. In this school, image is everything and to lose my cool, uncaring image would be unacceptable. Students would know they could get to me and try more often to do so. There have been days I've stayed home or played sick to go home early because the emotional stress is too much to take.