My first two grades were in a very small school of 1-6 grades, split up by movable partitions in a one-room grade school.  I then went to a town of 14k for grades 3-12.

My question is this - my assumption about most teachers within a school system is that most of them know who the troubled kids are, who the bullied kids are, who the bullies are, who the shiny and bright kids are, who the popular kids are, who the despised kids are, and so on. 

So, what I am asking is, is this a fair inference?  Is it fair to believe most teachers are more dialed into the student body than a lot of people realize, but for this reason or that reason, they are almost powerless to do much?

I mean, I can't imagine teachers not talking to each other about individual students and I'm not trying to lay blame, though, I do believe so much of this school trouble is based upon a human-student-like caste system that perpetuates so much of the bullying that goes on.