Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24400457-20140612060911

They may have heard something. There's nothing to suggest they didn't, but at the same time what's done is done. They can't go back in time and be there for Velvet.

I still imagine the other girl being there leader and being one for discipline at that (probably the kind we'd have seen Weiss be) and she could easily have shrugged off the news with an off-handed "Should've done something about it..."

Or perhaps when they did hear about it Velvet asked them not to confront Cardin about it because it would likely only make things worse. A cowardly response to discrimination is the absolute worst way you can go about dealing with it. You think things would get better if Blade threatened Cardin? No. Cardin would just be gifted another set of insults to use against her.

Also RWBY and JNPR haven't actually done anything to help Jaune with Cardin. and he'd been getting bullied since the first day which, according to Goodwitch, was "weeks" ago.