You are head teacher of a school.

Judy54

Continue investigating and then make a decision on the balance of probabilities.

What if one gets it wrong and a child is falsely accused.
It's a dilemma indeed!

Continue investigating and then make a decision on the balance of probabilities.

I knew a head who would tell the students that she was very busy at the moment and they would need to stay outside her room until she was ready to deal with them. Without fail the students would start talking, thinking she couldn't hear them. Often the guilty one threatened the other. All would become clear. She never said you did this or that but would ask why did you do that or how did you do that. It worked brilliantly,

If there was a history of the two of them going around doing that sort of thing regularly, that might be a different matter!

Punish neither.
HT might suspect someone. But that is all it is. A suspicion.

I think it's important to follow the rules callistemon but also important to recognise the stupid rules and ignore them

Marydoll

Callistemon21

3 continue to interrogate them until one cracks

We have ways of making you talk 👹

Then Calli you would have the parents (and your bosses) coming down on you like a tone of bricks! 😉

I remember when three of us did something rather naughty (but worthwhile and justified) at school.

The form teacher was furious 😃 but not one of the girls in the class told on us, thank you LVA!
I think they would all have been Spartacus if interrogated.

Callistemon21

^3 continue to interrogate them until one cracks^

We have ways of making you talk 👹

Then Calli you would have the parents (and your bosses) coming down on you like a tone of bricks! 😉

3 continue to interrogate them until one cracks

We have ways of making you talk 👹

Punish neither and take a step back to think about it.

No HT worth their salt would go in all guns blazing and certainly would not interrogate them.