This has been a crazy news story with even crazier solutions to fight bullying in schools. Many school bullying incidents aren't as bad as many television personalities are portraying this case. Not by a long shot. The suggestion that we need to start arresting and convicting children for pushing,teasing, shoving, kicking, and punching other students on a regular basis is absurd. This kind of behavior can be handled by the staff. Unfortunately, teachers were asleep at the wheel in this case.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/massachusetts.bullying.suicide/index.html?hpt=T2
That's about what I would expect someone who had never been bullied to say...