Why is bullying most rampant in middle school? Because that's the last nationwide forced chaos. Compulsory education packs top students, obedient kids, troublemakers, slackers, and pre-gangster reserves all into one class, with the homeroom teacher only focusing on high school entrance exam scores and performance. Those true school bullies—causing injuries, collecting protection fees, campus loans with high interest, sexual harassment, group fights, stabbing people—are terrible at academics, but teachers sometimes secretly rely on them to keep order, intimidating other troublemakers. School leaders collectively turn a blind eye; anyway, once the high school entrance exam is over, they stop caring.

The high school entrance exam is that bloody sieve:
Good grades, obedient enough → Key high schools, continue the 996 grind of practice exams and college entrance exams, with no time or courage to bully.
Average grades, still struggling → Regular high schools or private schools, barely maintaining a decent appearance.
Real malignant tumors (antisocial personalities, zero willingness to learn, completely dysfunctional families, turned into social pests) → Diverted directly into the trash heap by the transfer mechanism.

Vocational schools and technical colleges, to maintain KPIs like graduation and employment rates, keep raising admission thresholds, screening out the worst to the extreme. Those who can't be filtered out are thrown into the lowest-tier technical schools, welding classes, black-market auto repair shops, beauty salons, or directly drop out to work in factories, join gangs, or end up in detention centers.

What are vocational schools really like? The most unruly, bottom-line-breaking, early-mature, ruthless group of societal trash, all bundled together and thrown into the same cesspit. Smoking, drinking, fighting in groups, talking about social sisters and brothers, campus loans, gang rapes, rapes, stabbing, collecting protection fees, extorting via videos—these are daily routines. Most teachers are just earning wages; who dares to truly intervene? If they do, they might be stabbed at the school gate tomorrow. Leaders only care about avoiding deaths and hot searches; when something happens, they cover it up, threaten the victims' families.

This isn't about kids getting better; it's about completely removing the worst scum from public view and tossing them into the gutter to fend for themselves.

The harsher truth is:
In the short term, this system is extremely effective. Key high schools and regular high schools seem peaceful on the surface, with good data, satisfied parents, and promotions for leaders.
In the long run, it’s just pushing a large number of antisocial ticking time bombs into the bottom of society early. Many are thoroughly socialized in technical schools and society before age 18—more manipulative, more bottom-line-breaking, better at avoiding laws, more ruthless. When they come out, encountering ordinary people is a disaster.
The most tragic are those ordinary kids who just barely miss the cutoff in the high school entrance exam, with no money or background. They can't get into good high schools, can't avoid the worst technical schools, and are bullied to the point of mental breakdown, dropping out, suicide, depression—destined to suffer lifelong. They are the true victims.

This automatic diversion system is essentially a low-cost scapegoat tool for the education system plus stability maintenance machinery. It never tackles the root causes (family breakdown, mental illness, poverty and cultural intergenerational transmission, lack of prospects for lower-class men); it only dumps problematic students downstream like industrial wastewater, letting the downstream rot completely.

So you ask, did they get better later? No. They’re just diverted into gutters you’ll never see, continuing to rot more intensively, more thoroughly, more professionally—becoming career thugs, street bullies, prison regulars.

To truly reduce campus bullying, you must dare to take serious action in middle school. Expel those who should be expelled immediately, send those who should attend vocational or juvenile detention straight away, arrest and fine irresponsible parents, hold them accountable, and kick persistent offenders into juvenile violence detention camps. But who dares? A slight dip in grades, a bit of public opinion backlash, some pressure for stability—who takes the blame? No one dares.

This is the most honest, most glaring, most politically incorrect version.