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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm sorry I am not clear.

I guess I'm asking a sort of philosophical question. I am trying to understand what would lead a person to not believe a confession.

[b]What I'm trying to understand is if someone would ever confess something to you, what would lead you to not believe it? 
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I guess I'm trying to understand how people can live with their conscience. Do they honestly, deeply believe that nothing happened? Or do they just shrug it off saying there is no evidence and they just don't want to bother dealing with it?

I'm having a hard time seeing how people can trust others who know someone has confessed but then go on with business as usual. Do they actually believe the confession was false or untrue? Or do they just choose to ignore it?[/quote]

Some reasons might be the person was inebriated or otherwise unable to understand what they were confessing; the person was threatened or coerced; the person is covering for someone else; the person is confessing legally to avoid going to trial and facing harsher penalties.

None of those seem to fit here, so if the teacher really confessed, then yes, I agree that if they confessed to the parent and then later recanted to the school, they were doing that to cover their ass and they probably did it. But the alternative here is the parent lied or misunderstood that they confessed. The school can't prove that. If the teacher literally told the school "yes, I did confess earlier but now I recant" I would believe the teacher did it, but if the teacher said "I did not do it and I did not tell the parent I did it," then there isn't enough proof for the school to do anything, even if you still believe the parent personally.[/quote]

Thank you for the straightforward response. I am trying to find ways to reconcile what I believe happened with the outcome of the investigation and response by the school. The person who had the conversation with the teacher who confessed had no reason to lie or make something up. It is awkward that we are all supposed to go forward as if the conversation never happened. I struggle sometimes with these unsaid understandings. Like, at my workplace too. We all talk about prioritizing women's empowerment or something and then the director obviously makes patronizing, sexist remarks and no one says anything. And then at the school they talk about nurturing environment and blah blah but we are supposed to now ignore a respected parent's report of a teacher telling her, literally, "Oh yes, I hit X, but not as hard as I hit Y." I just don't understand how people can compartmentalize or move on or ignore all that.[/quote]

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