Yeah, in the beginning I think they did exactly what you said, took her word at face value. As soon as they heard bomb threat the police probably went into Homeland Security mode.
My guess is that the School did an investigation of their own. When they assumed they had the evidence necessary they called the boy to the office and proceeded to call the police. They then handed the boy and the evidence over to the police. Because we're talking about national security here the police immediately threw him in the hole and called the FBI or Homeland security or both. The 12 days he sat in that cell can probably be attributed to the time it took the feds to get there and investigate the issue on their own. Once they looked at the phone records and noticed a discrepancy in the times they realized they had the wrong person and let him go.
If the principal had made sure the systems under her control were functioning properly none of this would have happened. At my company we treated the new DST like y2k because of all the patching that was necessary. We were working on the issue at least 3 months before the event itself. It was well publicized... enough for her to have taken charge and made sure the problem was resolved long before the actual date, but it wasn't. For that reason alone she is entirely at fault. In the military dereliction of duty punishment "Through neglect or culpable inefficiency. Forfeiture of two-thirds pay per month for 3 months and confinement for 3 months."
"You're a criminal, criminals lie all the time." What, is she judge, jury, and executioner?
It is not only her job to educate the children, but it is also her job to mind her ship. That means that she makes sure when critical events occur that the critical systems under her control which depend on those events are functioning properly. She borderline relieved this boy of his god given constitutional rights and sentenced him to rot in a jail cell for 12 days. For what? Because she failed to take care of what she was entitled and paid to take care of. For this reason alone she is 100% at fault.
Think of the trauma this boy went through in those 12 days. We don't live in a society where one person can accuse and convict in the same sentence. We don't live in a society where said accused is lead into a basement and shot in the back of the head. We leave that for men like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. We live in a society which has rules to protect the innocent, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." Of all the people, I would think an educator would know this.
She probably deserves to be fired for this injustice. Knowing the "litigate yourself to personal prosperity" attitude of morons in the United States she'll probably get the crap sued out of her from every direction as well. Personally I don't believe she should be fired or sued, that takes away from valuable resources that should be used for the children. If true, I believe she should be forced to go through what Cody went through; spend 12 days in the same cell under the same conditions as him. I doubt after that experience she'll neglect to mind her ship again.
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Yeah, in the beginning I think they did exactly what you said, took her word at face value. As soon as they heard bomb threat the police probably went into Homeland Security mode.
My guess is that the School did an investigation of their own. When they assumed they had the evidence necessary they called the boy to the office and proceeded to call the police. They then handed the boy and the evidence over to the police. Because we're talking about national security here the police immediately threw him in the hole and called the FBI or Homeland security or both. The 12 days he sat in that cell can probably be attributed to the time it took the feds to get there and investigate the issue on their own. Once they looked at the phone records and noticed a discrepancy in the times they realized they had the wrong person and let him go.
If the principal had made sure the systems under her control were functioning properly none of this would have happened. At my company we treated the new DST like y2k because of all the patching that was necessary. We were working on the issue at least 3 months before the event itself. It was well publicized... enough for her to have taken charge and made sure the problem was resolved long before the actual date, but it wasn't. For that reason alone she is entirely at fault. In the military dereliction of duty punishment "Through neglect or culpable inefficiency. Forfeiture of two-thirds pay per month for 3 months and confinement for 3 months."
"You're a criminal, criminals lie all the time." What, is she judge, jury, and executioner?
It is not only her job to educate the children, but it is also her job to mind her ship. That means that she makes sure when critical events occur that the critical systems under her control which depend on those events are functioning properly. She borderline relieved this boy of his god given constitutional rights and sentenced him to rot in a jail cell for 12 days. For what? Because she failed to take care of what she was entitled and paid to take care of. For this reason alone she is 100% at fault.
Think of the trauma this boy went through in those 12 days. We don't live in a society where one person can accuse and convict in the same sentence. We don't live in a society where said accused is lead into a basement and shot in the back of the head. We leave that for men like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. We live in a society which has rules to protect the innocent, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury ... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ..." Of all the people, I would think an educator would know this.
She probably deserves to be fired for this injustice. Knowing the "litigate yourself to personal prosperity" attitude of morons in the United States she'll probably get the crap sued out of her from every direction as well. Personally I don't believe she should be fired or sued, that takes away from valuable resources that should be used for the children. If true, I believe she should be forced to go through what Cody went through; spend 12 days in the same cell under the same conditions as him. I doubt after that experience she'll neglect to mind her ship again.