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Those definitions remind me of when I was caught in the school library after hours and out of uniform. The teacher who "caught" me freaked out on seeing cuts a
by sandworm 12y ago
Those definitions remind me of when I was caught in the school library after hours and out of uniform. The teacher who "caught" me freaked out on seeing cuts all over my legs.
I had just been mountaineering the day before, which explained the cuts. But the real joke was that I couldn't go home. It was a boarding school. To her credit, she thought I was a day student too afraid to go home. Not to her credit, she should have talked to me or the teacher who took a group of us climbing BEFORE launching an investigation.
I was bored with the common rooms and just wanted to read a book. Where I got and hid the keys she never found out.
- hamstergene 12y agoThis reminds me of a story when child services were called on a family because the child had scratches on her arms from playing with cat. Isn't it also bad for a normal child to see out of nowhere unknown people, laywer and their parents scared sh*tless?
- DanBC 12y agoReport early, report often, is a good idea. There are countless examples of children who were brutally murdered because individual agencies did their own poor quality investigations before deciding not to report their concerns to child protection social services; if those social workers had the full range of complaints from police and teachers and other agencies then the child would still be alive today and the parents would not be free to abuse the child.
- sukilot 12y agoThe problem is that because the front line reports and trusts the back line to investigate, and then the back line jumps to conclusions by assuming the front line only reports serious problems. Same problem when cops arrest and trust the lawyers, lawyers prosecute because they trust the cops, and juries convict because they trust the lawyers, and no one actually engages in critical thinking.