If a law is broken or it is something that requires mandatory reporting to the police than parents should not be allowed to say they don't want it investigated.  Does anyone consider that when the parents don't want the police involved that it could have more to do with them and what they might be hiding?  The more we allow these district administrators to make decisions to sweep things under the rug the more we are raising kids to believe they are untouchable.  Then later when someone is discovered to have been hiding a serial and deviant behavior for 30 years everyone asks how.  Well, maybe it all started with a low level employee not calling the police when they should have?