@cwilbur School officials always want things hushed up, it’s just in this kind of case there are legal consequences. Earlier in my teaching career things were pretty wild at my school. There was wstrong arm robberies, adults were accidently hurt by students, cars were vandalized, keys went missing and classrooms robbed. One year a report came out stating that there was an all-time low in school district crime and violence. Of course we had to see it. Almost none of the incidents were in the report. The excuses were things like the keyed cars were parked on the street not on school property. I had reported a girl who had been surrounded and harrassed by a group of boys but that never became official because I didn’t know the boys and the girl wouldn’t cooperate.
The union pressured teachers to report every incident they saw, demand a copy of each report and when appropriate press charges. In one case a boy shoved me as he was trying to leave an assembly without permission. This kid had several run-ins with teachers so I insisted on a police report for battery. You would not believe the pressure as everyone from the AP to the counselor to the resource (police) officer trying to get me to drop it. It turned out this kid had such a bad record that this was the last straw and he ended up in CYA.
By the end of the year we could see the difference in the school climate. Some of the bad element were gone (several at their own request) everybody else got the message.