[throwoutway]

There’s a difference between a victim receiving a threatening text and showing it to administration, and the school demanding to see random teenager’s phones to look for potential crimes. If they have a suspicion, get an actual investigative police detective involved.

[mlyle]

Do you think the police are generally actually willing to investigate harassment between teens?

[throwoutway]

Do you think teachers trained to investigate and properly handle evidence? Because if they don’t, then the evidence isn’t admissible in court, or maybe they decide to kick out the wrong student on suspicions.

[mlyle]

Every day, administrators already have to investigate occurrences at school and choose appropriate disciplinary paths forward.

Coursework in legal matters is part of educational leadership/administration programs and is a focus of professional development, in part because districts are incentivized to reduce litigation costs.

I share your apparent concern that districts, etc, screw up discipline often and unjust outcomes occur. However, doing nothing isn't an option, and I don't think punting more of school discipline to the police is likely to improve outcomes.

[rdtwo]

Some schools have police on staff to do the harassment.

[mlyle]

Yah, that's true-- sometimes there's a SRO available. But I'm not really a fan of the SRO thing.

You'll find both administrators and SRO's abusing their powers, but I think the SRO potential for abuses are larger.