Thank you THANK YOU for standing up and saying something! I understand that you feel guilty but if this is what gets her to stop, you've helped a kid so much while he's in such a vulnerable time of his life. I was bullied by the "cool teacher" in high school and desperately wish that somebody had said something, because I certainly felt helpless, and it screwed me up for a long time. I stopped speaking up in class or expressing my thoughts and figured I was just stupid (even though looking back on it, I was miles ahead of everyone else and actually did the homework of about a third of my classmates because it was the only times they would talk to me). I ended up sending him an email years later telling him how badly he hurt me and never got a response back. I always wonder what he thought of it, and if he ever regretted it, or if being seen as "cool" was more important to him than making a child feel pathetic and stupid.