“Anyone wanna bet the perp is on some form of meds for depression or some other Rx the schools felt were necessary for the continued well being of the child?”
As far as I know no school prescribes medicine. They may boot your child out until he sees a psychologist but, for legal reasons, they won’t even recommend drugs.
Locally in several different schools it is "suggested" that little "problem student Johnnie/Jenny" needs to see if "Popular teenage prescription mind numbing drug" will settle him/her down. Many of the old timer teachers are appalled but it has become policy now to urge parents to drug their children if they don't follow in lock step with the dictates of the Public School overlords.
And I am not exaggerating, I have many friends who work in the local schools from all parts of the system.
One incident was a 7th grade girl refused to undress and change in the locker rooms for phys ed. (They don't have private stalls at our school) after her refusing to submit (with much drama and yelling by the teacher and embarrassing her in front of the other students) she got detention etc but she would not back down! Then the school suggested drug therapy may help in the form of a letter to her parents. Come to find out they were very religious and they don't allow disrobing in a group etc. . They parents had notified the teacher with written notes several times but they were ignored. The parents and a lawyer showed up at school with the drug letter and not surprisingly the school backed down quick and the whole thing was settled by allowing the girl to change in a small room that is in the locker rooms.
Any time a student acts in a way the School Admin/Teachers deem inappropriate (Like when the caught a Freshman Boy and girl making whoopie in the restroom several times) Drug therapy is urged. One teacher confided in me that around 35% of the students in the high school are on some form of drugs prescribed for behavior disorders/depression. (Students must inform the schools of any Rx drugs they are taking lest they have the hammer dropped on them for abusing drugs)
I of course am no Doctor buy I can safely say there is no way 35% of our high school kids NEED behavior modifying drugs. but there is BIG MONEY in those drugs so of course if you can get the Gub'ment to push those drugs through our schools well Big Pharma can make even more money now can't they?
So technically, the school doesn't prescribe the meds, they only start a process which ends up in medication, often without recourse for the parents or the child.