Agree In Part
While bullying is a social problem, we need someway to protect the rest from them while the bully is learning a different way of doing things. It's not OK to put programs in place that have no teeth, as there are those who will not accept that they are in the wrong no matter how much education they get. There has to be, at least as a last resort, serious, legal consequences. For the parents as well as the child!
It's also not OK to require the victim to acknowledge fault or force them to have to change their behavior. I speak from the experience of a close friends daughter. She won the school district citizenship award and topped her class in several subjects as a 12 year old. After 2 years of high-school, she was forced to spend all her time, both class time and recess, in an empty class room as the teachers would not protect her from attack Even in class!
She now suffers from depression and has attempted suicide! This is a person who had an enormous amount to contribute to society who will probably never reach her potential. A loss for all of us, not just those that know her.
