Are you a trained investigator?
Is it not a conflict of interest that someone within the same school perform an investigation?
Is this not like government, cops and DA's investigating themselves?
re: “Why would you conduct the investigation? Are you a trained investigator? Is it not a conflict of interest that someone within the same school perform an investigation?
Is this not like government, cops and DA’s investigating themselves?”
So, the principal should not have tried to find out what happened? If you were the principal you don’t think you have a personal responsibility to find out whether or not an accusation against one of your employees has merit or not?
Who should do the investigating? The police? So, every time an altercation at a school happens we have to have an outside body investigate? How practical is that? If the accusation rises to the level of a crime, then yes, of course local authorities should be involved, but do you have any idea how many situations like the one described happen?