Looking at the linked article, this appears to be a snit fit between the police department and the school. The police department said something stupid about what should be brought to its attention, and the school knew it was stupid, but believed the way to show that it was stupid was to obey it to the letter.
Ordinarily, the brownie fuss wouldn’t have even resulted in the principal getting involved let alone this.
Both the school and police department should be sued.
It was the prosecutor’s office that put out the directive, though.
But agreed that normally a principal wouldn’t even get involved, and the involvement of the police and apparently child protective services was way over the line.
The Philly.com article says that it seems the May directive to “report everything” was in response to a high school incident that wasn’t immediately reported.
So why did prosecutors think the proper remedy was to have school officials call police and CPS about everything? How exactly did they reach that conclusion, especially on a legal basis?
Of course, the school district can’t be calling about EVERYTHING, too.
Likely, they just called if an issue reached the principal. So how and why did this go from the teacher to the principal?
As I mentioned, we don’t know exactly what was said by the boy, or the other student, much less how the teacher responded. Perhaps due to confidentiality issues, that never will be released. If the situation would have been handled by the teacher or the school, there would be no need, either, for the public to know what happened. But since it’s now a public controversy, there appears a need for someone to explain more about the “incident” itself.