“The article doesn’t say so but it seems like this is NOT a police matter.”
It should be.
School Districts like to use the Ed Code and consider themselves a power unto themselves. The kids are theirs from leaving home till back at home. They administer punishments and solutions. And with zero tolerance, they have no problems — a utopia.
Been there, done that.
It sounds like she attends a special school for disabled kids, and the bus was from that school. That’s why there were two matrons.
And my guess if the boy who did this is probably more severely mentally disabled, and maybe doesn’t have normal control over his actions, and is in fact dangerous. But we have to educate everybody, so all the kids on the disabled bus are at risk.