[Oiseau the Little Bird!]

As a personal victim of bullying, though none as severe as physical abuse, I can tell you that teachers almost never notice. Unless they catch the bully in the act of calling you a name loud enough for someone else to hear, they assume that it's nothing worth bothering about. Elementary and middle school were the worst times for me because kids would get me when the teachers weren't looking, or in the halls between classes. And shit, even IN class while we had group projects to work out, that was terrible.
The worst part of it was that I DID tell the disciplinary folk of my school, and the worst they ever got was a verbal warning. They were never written up (except the one time I was sexually harassed when some kid asked me to give him a blowjob on a dare from one of his friends), but even after the disciplinary folk spoke to them, the bullying got worse. Because I was audacious enough to step up and get them in trouble for making my life a living hell, they only came back with a whole new wave of insults and name-calling. Which, for an 11 year old, is really awful to deal with.

Honestly, I want to agree with you, Craig, but there apparently isn't much you can directly hold a child responsible for when their own cruel acts lead to an 11 year old's suicide. Because they're minors, you can't throw them in jail for "assisting/encouraging suicide" or whatever... I don't even know what you could do TO them to punish them. I'd suggest Juvi, but unfortunately, they don't throw bullies in to reform until later in life when they kill kids based on their race or sexual orientation.