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[quote=Anonymous]Most schools will handle disclosure on a case by case basis. Factors in the decision making process would be: how serious, how wide of a threat, how public is it already, will it result in policy changes that need to be communicated, were police/EMS on campus as a result, level of student privacy involved, other "need to know" items, etc.

If it is a clear case, say minor incident between two kids witnessed by a teacher, one-off incident, it will handled as a private disciplinary matter. If it's a kid who is deemed a larger threat, explusion will happen and typically that sort of thing cannot be disclosed, but "gets out." If they need more information from other kids, a broader message will be sent. If it is causing a lot of inappropriate gossip and the like, a message may be sent to shut that down. If police/EMS are on campus, it will be disclosed to the necessary and allowable degree.

Schools have to balance all sorts of issues on these topics, and it can be a challenging call between privacy laws, legal investigation restraints, gossip gone wild, and angry parents. But, very generally speaking, the broader the potential student impact (e.g., a campus security breach, weapon on campus, serious crime, school lock down), the more a school will err on the side of broader disclosure if it potentially impacts the safety of others. If they find no threat to others, or are otherwise forbidden by law to disclose, then the curious but uninvolved will not be indulged.[/quote]

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