Democratic education. Radical education. Providing necessities to all. It's up to the workers obviously, but my own opinion is that schools should be huge ass community centers. Basically, classes are provided for subjects the workers deem necessary or useful: if there's a shortage of mechanics, mechanics classes would be emphasized (along with perks like nicer apartments or something for people who go into the field). Your usual basic classes could be provided as well for whoever wants to take them. Classes would be based on skill level rather than age, so you could have old folks learning about computers alongside children, for instance. The emphasis would be on students teaching each other with guidance from teachers—with students also choosing what to study and how—and the class would not move on to the next chapter (for example) until everyone understood the material. You could entice people to come to these centers by offering three good free meals per day as well as sports and theater and stuff like that. The schools themselves would be run by students, teachers, and workers—not school boards or administrators.
The key to this is not forcing people into education if they don't want to go. Let people learn what they like, how they like. Some might disagree about removing the compulsory aspect of education (with good reasons), but I think that if you build it, they will come.
To answer the question more specifically, I think others here have talked about addressing the root causes of bullying. I guess I just wanted to go into more detail in describing a possible vision of a radical Marxist education system.
On a personal note, I worked as a teacher for many years and am homeschooling my kids now. It took me a long ass time to radicalize / realize that I was a Marxist, but one radicalizing moment earlier in my life was spending a lot of time in my high school library reading about alternative education methods because I was sick and fucking tired of being told what to do all the time and being forced to jump through endless pointless arbitrary hoops. I remember looking up as I was reading about that shit and thinking to myself: "Why can't we have a democratic economy?" Sadly it took me another ten fucking years to figure out that this was Marxism.
Democratic education. Radical education. Providing necessities to all. It's up to the workers obviously, but my own opinion is that schools should be huge ass community centers. Basically, classes are provided for subjects the workers deem necessary or useful: if there's a shortage of mechanics, mechanics classes would be emphasized (along with perks like nicer apartments or something for people who go into the field). Your usual basic classes could be provided as well for whoever wants to take them. Classes would be based on skill level rather than age, so you could have old folks learning about computers alongside children, for instance. The emphasis would be on students teaching each other with guidance from teachers—with students also choosing what to study and how—and the class would not move on to the next chapter (for example) until everyone understood the material. You could entice people to come to these centers by offering three good free meals per day as well as sports and theater and stuff like that. The schools themselves would be run by students, teachers, and workers—not school boards or administrators.
The key to this is not forcing people into education if they don't want to go. Let people learn what they like, how they like. Some might disagree about removing the compulsory aspect of education (with good reasons), but I think that if you build it, they will come.
To answer the question more specifically, I think others here have talked about addressing the root causes of bullying. I guess I just wanted to go into more detail in describing a possible vision of a radical Marxist education system.
On a personal note, I worked as a teacher for many years and am homeschooling my kids now. It took me a long ass time to radicalize / realize that I was a Marxist, but one radicalizing moment earlier in my life was spending a lot of time in my high school library reading about alternative education methods because I was sick and fucking tired of being told what to do all the time and being forced to jump through endless pointless arbitrary hoops. I remember looking up as I was reading about that shit and thinking to myself: "Why can't we have a democratic economy?" Sadly it took me another ten fucking years to figure out that this was Marxism.