South Brooklyn DSA

This is a horrifying story. It makes me ask myself, if I were the teacher, what would I have done? What could I have done?

Follow the golden rule: no snitching

Easier said than done. This is a student who killed someone once. This is a student whose writing was a cry for help. It goes against the grain of every decent educator on the planet to read something like what he wrote and to say nothing and do nothing.

I'm gonna suggest that there were options other than "fink on a child who confided in you" and "nothing"

The teacher seems to have thought the kid would get witness protection, not deportation. So I'm not sure that's "finking".

I'd say trusting the government to do right by the kid requires a level of naive ignorance that is tantamount to negligence at this point.

It is a horrible thing that people are not in complete control of the end results of the actions their consciences or the rules governing their profession require them to take. But it's true. Most people truly do not intend to make things worse rather than better.