Something along the lines of "If this is handled in the school, there won't be any bad publicity".
If the police are never notified, there is no crime. There is no scrutiny. There are no questions.
Sure, a student here or there may be crippled physically and mentally for life. But that's all secondary to the amount of paperwork the principal would have to fill out if the authorities were called. Certainly, you can see the dilemma. /s/
Possibly, but the story indicated that the principal didn’t believe the sex wasn’t consensual. That makes it even sicker. He may be a voyeur or he let his pop psychology get the best of him.
Terrible decision maker - dumb, low moral standards, and paid a mint.
Sounds like government work.
For some bizarre reason, crime on public school campuses is rarely reported to the police and action is seldom taken unless the parents push for it themselves.
There’s tons of theft in the school district in which we live and whenever the kids complain, the school tells them to fill out a report, chew the kids out for not locking their stuff up, knows who the perps are, and does NOTHING about it.
I don’t know why schools administrators seem to think that they are above the law or outside the law, or that they don’t have to follow ordinary legal proceedings when dealing with lawbreakers, but they act as if they are sovereign and not bound by the laws that apply to the rest of this country and society outside the public school system.
They’re sanctuaries for criminals, who only get rewarded for their criminal behavior by continually getting away with it and everybody knows it, and everyone knows that everyone knows about it.