The school is 100% accountable to address this matter, as they have a duty of care and responsibility to each and every child by providing a safe learning environment they are legally required to attend.

Regardless if the victim presses charges or not, the school should immediately intervene and take some sort of action to mitigate the problem through education or discipline.

With spouse / domestic assault, the police must act regardless if the victim doesn't want any intervention - This should occur in the school environment too.

Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

A boy was punched in the mouth and put in a headlock at Jersey City?s Dickinson High School playground Thursday in what the victim?s relatives said was another incident of ongoing bullying, officials said.

Officers responding to the school at Palisade and Newark avenues at about 11:50 a.m. spoke to the victim, who said a boy asked him for $1 and when he said he didn't have one, the boy punched him, a police report says.

The victim said his attacker then put him in a headlock and asked him if he wanted to fight. When the victim walked away, the attacker and attacker?s friends laughed at him, the report says, adding that the victim told police he did not want to press charges.

The victim?s aunt and uncle told police they did not think the incident was a robbery attempt, but was likely another incident in ongoing bullying, the report says.