I really hate to say it, but sometimes I wonder if it's the teachers themselves simply not wanting to do anything about it. I contrast this incident and many from my childhood (I was the fat kid. When you're the fat kid, everyone's against you) with a few my fiancee had dealt with in her classroom this year. She let *nothing* past her, and meted out discipline, whereas some instructors really couldn't care less.
Hey guys, let's all get together and send X and her lil one some flowers
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"For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks."
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)
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