“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 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.