> I guess you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Pedophilia is being normalized before our very eyes. Not de jure, but de facto. De jure will follow later, like it did with the queers.
Pretty soon, protecting your children with a shotgun won’t be just a cute little metaphor anymore. But you’ll prolly go to prison for it.
My wife was a school nurse and in two states was required to report suspected abuse directly to state authorities. Reporting to school authorities violates confidentiality and by law those same authorities would be required to report the abuse directly to state officials anyway. This is just school bureaucrats being idiots.
The name Sandusky pops into my crazy mind.
The principal’s reaction should have been to scold the teacher for not following proper protocol and also praise him for acting quickly and decisively in the protection of the minor. For the teacher to be fired suggests some seriously skewed priorities at the school and perhaps throughout that district.
My wife and I both work with children and are mandatory reporters. We have both made this report in the past to the school and have been handed the forms that go directly to social services child protection to fill out. Our schools assist us in making this report. This situation is just crazy and stinks of someone trying to protect a child molester.
It may depend on the state but I thought all teacher were mandated reporters.
Hmmm. Based on the info given, one can’t help but wonder if Principal Higgins has something to hide here. Could he be the mystery “paramour”?
Some years back, my daughter was in fast-pitch softball and one of the other mothers was a teacher’s aide. She told me that she had been threatened with a lawsuit because she had told the school that a gay elementary teacher had been fondling the young boys in class, right in front of her. The teacher remained in the classroom; but, she was transferred to a very troubled school with a lot of violence.
In New York and Virginia you report to the Principal or ranking administrator and then either you or they call Social Services, right then and there. You tell the Administrator first because they know the questions SS will ask and generally will have access to student records that a teacher might not if it is not one of their students. I had to do this with one of my swimmers when I was coaching. I did not have access to address, phone # etc....