Reply #140: Separate them...

[LWolf]

good idea. If you've got two different offices, and two sets of adults not on duty with other kids, to take charge. Good luck with that.

There is one office, and one administrator on duty, at my school. If the admin isn't off campus at a meeting somewhere. Which is the same as the school I worked in before that, 900 miles and a state away. If you wanted to separate kids, they would have to go to the front office first; then one would sit in the principal's office and one in the little room with the medical supplies and cot. The rooms are adjacent to each other, but have doors. You couldn't separate them until you got them up to the central office, though, and anyone up there would want to know what was going on before deciding where to place them. It sounds like that happened here, and the further assault happened while they were getting that information.