> They also get transferred out and usually “busted down” when test scores and/or grades are too low… <
Yep. Here’s a “busted down” story for you. In one of our schools, a student smuggled a knife into class. A vice principal tried to disarm the kid, and got cut for his troubles.
The vice principal got to a phone, and dialed 911. The next year he got transferred to one of the worst schools in the city.
Why? You’re supposed to call the (unarmed) school police, and never the city police. And that’s because central administration can bury school police reports but not city police reports.
Yep. I had a large knife fall out of a kid’s pants one day right onto the classroom floor - sent for school police (as I was supposed to do) - principal arrived immediately, “counseled” the student outside my classroom - he was sent straight back to class (don’t know if he still had the knife). And that was the end of it.
My husband said a kid came into his office (admin) and said- he knew of a kid that had a gun on him and was going to use it - husband said he had no question the kid was going to use the gun - he found th kid and the gun, disarmed the kid and handed it all over to school police to handle. Said that was the last he heard of it. He was near retirement and well knew what would happen if he made a big deal about it.