2 Days - 2 Students - 2 Police Reports

I don't know what has been going on this week, but it seems that insanity has struck my students!

Day 1 of Fun
On Tuesday morning our school resource officer is at my classroom door looking for one of our girls. After about an hour we finally learn what was going on with this student. Seems Katie (names changed, of course) decided to make a phone call on her friends cell phone during the bus ride home on Monday. In fact, she made fifty-five (55) phone calls...to 9-1-1. She decided to make prank calls to the police department. She made reports that people were shooting at the bus, that a student had a knife on the bus, that two kids on the bus were threatening to kill, etc. The police department called the director of transit to locate the bus, and they went out to stop the bus.

To make matters worse, Katie lied to the police and told them two elementary (younger and smaller) kids stole the phone and made the prank calls. The parents of those kids were called and questioned. It was an absolute mess! To add to the fun, turns out the phone wasn't even hers. It belonged to her friend, Cheyenne.

Did I mention why she decided to prank call 9-1-1? She called them because it was the only number the phone was able to call. Ugh!

Since this was first a bus incident, she was assigned 3 days of in-school suspension. But there is more. The police are filing charges against her for filing a false police report. Good grief!


Day Two of Fun
I got to work this morning and my teammate couldn't wait to tell me about the fiasco that ensued on Tuesday afternoon. One of our boys, Trey, got home from the bus with red all over his face, head, hands, and even inside his mouth. He told his grandmother (who is his guardian) that another student, Seth, gave him a piece of exploding bubble gum. The grandmother was supposedly histerical and took Trey to the emergency room. The doctors and social worker at the hospital called the police and the poison control center. Then, they called the school and spoke to our assistant principal. Evidently, the police wanted to know why we were allowing our children to be poisoned. (GOOD GRIEF!) The principal calls Seth's mother to inquire about the exploding bubble gum. Seth tells his mother that Trey had bit into a red pen and spread all the ink all over himself because he did not want to go to school the next day. A few other kids on the bus were questioned and corroborated Seth's explanation of the event. However, this bit of info was not shared with Trey's grandmother just yet. That comes later. Consequently, the police file a report, take photos, etc.

Guess who came to school this morning...Trey. His hands and face were still pinkish-red from the ink they were unable to get off his skin. This will take time. Trey spent the morning telling every human being in sight about how Seth gave him this exploding bubble gum and that his grandmother was filing charges against Seth for this.

The principal spent the day interviewing students trying to get to the root of it all. Finally, at around 2:00 today, they finally got Trey to confess to the lies. He did bite into the pen and make this mess on his own. Seth was an innocent student. Trey's grandmother came into the school this afternoon, and a meeting took place with Trey, his grandmother, two principals, a guidance counselor, and our school resource officer. Trey confessed in front of his grandmother. She was shocked, embarrassed, and extremely pissed off!

Trey will be getting three days of in-school suspension. The principal explained that since this was mostly an after-school incident there wasn't much recourse they could do. (The three days were really for bullying which stemmed from spreading the lies about Seth across the school.) However, the principal did stress to the grandmother and our school resource officer that he believes the police should file charges against Trey for filing a false report. There was also mention of Trey needed to, at some point, apologizing to Seth and his parents for putting them through all this ridiculousness.


It was definitely and interesting few days. Can't wait to see what tomorrow holds.