Why are student-on-student crimes in high schools (like assault) often prosecuted under school rules only, and not law?
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Prosecutors don’t want to have to deal with it.
Our schools literally got a letter from our city prosecutor in 2009 saying as much.
But you’re talking one major step in an awful direction for an 8th grader. Especially if it’s their first offense and mutual combat (even if it’s textbook assault and battery).
There really is no middle because there’s no funding. There are things that can be done to prevent violence at the school level, but it means more staff.
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