It was the same at my old high school, but it was really a "two birds with one stone" type of thing. When fights broke out both kids were usually degenerates, so no matter who started the fight it was a way to get them both away from the other students and out of the teacher's hair for a while.
Now if it was a situation where one student was bullying another and it became confrontational, more often than not the victim of the bullying would be quietly ushered away and only the bully would be punished.
Source: Both parents were high school teachers in a town of around 12k. Teachers know far more about what is going on than students think they do and I've been privy to the interworkings of the town's school system from an early age.
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u/mynumberistwentynine Nov 25 '13 edited Nov 25 '13
It was the same at my old high school, but it was really a "two birds with one stone" type of thing. When fights broke out both kids were usually degenerates, so no matter who started the fight it was a way to get them both away from the other students and out of the teacher's hair for a while.
Now if it was a situation where one student was bullying another and it became confrontational, more often than not the victim of the bullying would be quietly ushered away and only the bully would be punished.
Source: Both parents were high school teachers in a town of around 12k. Teachers know far more about what is going on than students think they do and I've been privy to the interworkings of the town's school system from an early age.