You made me blush with that about teachers like me being needed. 😀
Yes, you are not the first one who has told me that at school was made nothing about a bullying case.
I however think that if there’s a moment when the teacher, the tutor, school and Educational authorities have to intervine is in these cases of bullying.
It’s like when a kid is mistreat at home. It produce many wounds in the kid and the bullies also have to take responsibility and learn.
I couldn’t ignore a thing like that. It’s not that all the time you have to make a big deal because it’s punctual but even in these case, you have to make the kid know that it’s a bad thing to do. Many times, when the bully sees you don’t approve a disrespect to a mate. It makes him/her think.

If it’s needed to go beyond, your obligation is to go beyond. How many kids have died because they have been neglected and abuse by their relatives or how many kids have committed suicide because they couldn’t take in a single more day at school because they have been bullied while many adults have washed themselves their hands.

In the past, there were a long group of people, the neighbourhood, the town, the tribe who use to involve themselves in the kids education, no matter if they were their own kid or somebody else’s kid. And now, not even teachers can do it. It’s not easy to get to an agreement with the parents, with the director of a school or the Administration. Or even, the law, in the worst cases. So, it’s not easy.

I understand the symptoms you describe and I see how you felt reflected with people with Asperger Syndrome. It doesn’t make you necessarily a person with Asperger. I’m very much like you, socially, and I’m not autistic.
Said that, that it lacks of relevance, the thing is that anything you may have or show that it’s different to the norm, it’s put in the spot.
If you are black within white people, if you are shy, if you find harder to socialised, if you are perceive as weaker, or a more studious person, if you have any disability, whatever can make a target of you.
I’m strange that it still happens nowadays. It means we are receiving subtle messages that didn’t match well with the other messages about accepting people as equal.
This is my concern.
We are living the lives that other people are interested we live and think what they are interested we think.

I think I get out of topic for a moment. I’m asking myself a lot of question about how the world is going and why.