Anecdotally, I've found mandatory reporting to have an absurdly high false positive rate. There was a teacher in high school that made a sport of reporting nea

Anecdotally, I've found mandatory reporting to have an absurdly high false positive rate. There was a teacher in high school that made a sport of reporting nearly any bruise to authorities. Completely ridiculous. Mandatory reporting never helped me either, even though it should have.