Wow! Thanks for posting that, it highlights complications.
Each school district will handle trouble uniquely. This depends on their discipline code and their state laws which may exceed any federal mandates.
My point is that this particular district, Broward - put into place a liberal non-punitive discipline policy that allowed for ‘Cruz’ to happen. Their goal appears to be to coddle and protect the criminal student at all costs disregarding the detrimental effect on the rest of the kids. State laws are not being enforced because the school district is interfering with state law deliberately in cahoots with the local LEO and local judicial system (all signatories of the plan).
They have determined that a juvenile delinquent’s rights supersede the rights of all the other classmates to get an education. They disregarded the health and safety of their students and their staff and put their very lives in jeopardy. They lost, bigly.
Parkland, Penn vs. Parkland, Fla. While Parkland*Florida ignored a seriously menacing threatening student who promised to kill, Parkland*Pennsylvania arrested two taunting relatively minor threatening students who intimidated their school.
No monkey business there. Student safety comes first!!!
The PA punks were physically removed from their school by the end of the school day and held in a juvenile detention facility until they were adjudicated and proven not to pose a threat to their fellow students. This happened December 2017.
While HIPPA and Federal education mandates must be obeyed, schools still have the power to deal appropriately and aggressively with dangerous students. It’s their duty.
To your final comment- When the system is dysfunctional (like-Broward) every parent who can afford to sends their children to private schools or home schools.