No struggling parents, better home conditions, better mental health care, less pressure to be wealthy, less shame about themselves, more teachers, more student care resources at school.
By making sure bullies were actually helped with the issues they have.
By having enough staff to spend the necessary time to handle conflicts.
By having a culture that fosters corporation instead of competition.
There will always be a degree of bullying but I think having everyone in youth organizations like the young pioneers would be cool. Teaching practical skills, building comradery, and giving kids something to do.
big thing not often talked about in the Soviet Union: Free sports and youth activities. People regularly rate that as one of the things they miss the most about the USSR. Back then you could simply request to join a team and they'd find you one, and they had quite a lot choices including rafting, rock climbing and more niche stuff.
That sounds pretty cool but I wonder how it would work for neurodivergent kids with an aversion to joining those sorts of organizations because of difficulty fitting in?
I'd imagine by building solidarity among the students.
institutionalised bullying as course-corrective therapy :theory-gary:
See I read this as "how would a communist high schooler stop bullying" at I thought "I was wish I was cool enough to start a Communist vanguard in high school." I still think a youth guarda is a valid idea.
Immediate exile to an Alaskan Restitution and Reeducation Camp. Hard labor and the ever-watchful eyes of our CyborgCommissars will ensure the child learns empathy and kindness. Same punishment for being tardy to class, forgetting your homework, loitering in the hallways, and other such counter-revolutionary activities. :gulag:
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.
