General Discussion

... be careful.

I have a daughter who is a school social worker working with seriously at-risk kids in Chicago and one who is a school psychologist in CO.

We don’t know yet exactly what was said in that meeting, and we don’t know what constraints school personnel are working under. Each district is different, and there are a lot of rules and limits.

My daughters frequently face having to make calls on the degree of threat a student presents, and they work under strict rules and procedures. Many angry students issue threats, nearly all are benign. School professionals - underpaid, overworked and probably paying off usurious student loans for the Masters degrees they were required to have - live with the pressure of making the wrong call.

This case certainly sounds like there were enough bright red flags that school personnel could be held liable in civil litigation. But I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.