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- Jan 30, 2022
My friend worked at a school as a teacher's aide for a couple years in college. One day he said a kid told him very briefly about his parents doing some kind of hard drugs, and he knew he was supposed to do some mandatory reporting immediately, but didn't know really what to do. So he wanted to wait to talk to the teacher first. He didn't get that chance, because not much later the teacher also heard the same thing from the kid and reported it properly. He said the kid didn't come back to class, except to pick up his stuff after school a few weeks later.
Hearsay is usually all a mandatory reporter can work with. It's up to other parties to figure out the rest. The kid knew something was wrong and told someone. Just a near-throwaway line of "my dad and his girlfriend were doing drugs last night" is enough to start an investigation that can easily lead to something more. Not much, but enough for someone that knew what they were doing to do something.
Hearsay is usually all a mandatory reporter can work with. It's up to other parties to figure out the rest. The kid knew something was wrong and told someone. Just a near-throwaway line of "my dad and his girlfriend were doing drugs last night" is enough to start an investigation that can easily lead to something more. Not much, but enough for someone that knew what they were doing to do something.