Imagine that you are a school administrator and it is brought to your attention that a young student (six or eight years old depending on the source) has drawn a disturbing violent picture and written a note indicating he wants to die.
Obviously this is a disturbing situation and something you need to deal with. But what do you do ?
Do you contact his parents ?
Do you talk to the child ?
Do you arrange for a school therapist to help out with the situation ?
Do you do some combination of the three ?
Well if you are with the Los Angeles Unified School District you contact mental health authorities and they have the child committed to a psych ward on a 72 hour suicide watch, complete with being strapped down to the gurney.
Then you call Mom to tell her that her son is in a mental ward.
It turns out the images were from a video game the child plays (something he told authorities) and that he was upset because his dad was being deployed and was leaving that day.
Obviously I would expect a teacher to be concerned about such images being drawn and we can debate the merits of letting a young child play violent video games.
But the district was a few miles out of bounds in what they did (though some defend them).