“Kids lie a lot,” responded Coriell, the principal. “They lie about all kinds of things. They blow lots of things out of proportion on a daily basis. In 17 years, they do it all the time. So to my knowledge, at 2 o’clock when I checked again, there were no pictures.”
I believe it takes some kind of disgusting hands-off approach to last as a teacher without any “bad” or controversial records of you. I also imagine those same teachers are the ones who never confronted such issues or treated it with the bare minimum in order to be rid of it as soon as possible, leading to a pool of admins who are all entirely wretched
Though my view is entirely vibes-based, I don’t have empirical evidence
I couldn’t even do substitute teaching after a certain point because of how school faculty is just garbage.
This is just child endangerment. Any excuse like “but it’s toooo haaaaard!” or “I don’t believe it, so I won’t even investigate!” just further incriminate them in being criminally lazy at their jobs.
They have no right punishing her for kicking his ass. You decided to knee-jerk protect the bully, and when a victim has no other avenue, you even put the bully you were trying to protect in danger.