I'm talking about Taylor's character. Do you honestly think Taylor giving up and knuckeling down to authority fits what we see of her in canon?
The thing about character is that it changes based on one's experiences, the majority of the time. The exception is people who are magically able to ignore absolutely everything, either because they're broken at 100% optimism, or they're sociopaths, and can't.
Taylor's experience with authority is that it is incapable, uninterested, and maliciously incompetent.
Except for when she as a cape is capable of brute forcing her position, she knuckles down. Of course, that said, once she is no longer just a civilian, most of her knuckling down is simply brute-forcing things with subtlety.
As such, explicitly, yes.
If all you do is file the report, and trust the school to act on it? Sure.
The issue is that if you (very sensibly) don't trust them you need to establish a paper trail before you can escelate over their heads.
Baiscally if you go to the school District with "The school isn't treating me fairly, and I want you to do something about it" the first thing they'll ask is for the paper trail of the reports. If you have them, even if the school tried to trash them or refused to acknowledge them? Then you will get them to move forward (that doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but at least you can get them to listen to you). If you don't have them not only won't you get anyone to listen, you'll establish yourself as a troublemaker who refuses to work with the Bureaucracy, i.e you'll make the school's case for them.
Yes, trust the staff that are engaging in malicious negligence to not do so that you can prove they aren't.
Given, basic reason (events that are documented elsewhere, such as the police, the hospital, etc), there exists enough of a paper trail that Taylor can establish such without requiring the veritably insipid route of walking in and going "Hey, can I have things that generally, you don't have to release to me at all, and informing you that I desire them could conceivably open me up to even greater negligence AND violence from those you're existentially conspiring with?"
To draw on real life: In my freshman year, I was given 60+ visits to ISS by my vice principal. He, at around 55, informed me that, by the rules, should've expelled me back around 34 or 35 because that was district policy. Given my grades, tempering influence on friends (while I was sort of the anchor for numerous and varied cliques, I spent the majority of my time with the metalheads/stoners/goths/etc), relative innocuousness of offenses, and other factors (such as basically a perfect year in 8th grade), not only he, but the principal, and their bosses, didn't feel it would be conducive to "reformation" to go strict and zero tolerance on me. He'd only informed me of such because that particular punishment's inciting incident was a bit worse than my typical.
Given the state of Winslow, I'd make a safe guess the district has no lesser school to remand students who can't properly follow the rules to, and apparently doesn't believe in in school suspension at all, so...
If you push and the administration refuses to do *anything*, the only realistic option is to evade them entirely. And, to reiterate, it would be a mistake to assume they'd cooperate in any extent in providing you the necessary information to cost them their jobs or send them to jail.
There's a bunch of stuff their bosses can do to them short of that, but even granting that for the sake of argument, the point is the only way you can reach that end game is if you have a paper trail to demonstrate what they did.
Just the scene with Gladly alone - pre bombing, nevermind his contribution to the post-punch scene, establishes that the schools' claims are vapor and that the paper trail that should exist, as well as any relevant actions thereafter, are abhorrently absent and Blackwell especially egregiously negligent.
Given said focal scene, you'd have to be ignoring every individual event of significance to pretend that there isn't already a trail firmly establishing they have failed to even contemplate due diligence, especially given that afterwards, Taylor isn't taken to task. RL again: In sixth grade (in a completely different state from prior example), I once joked to a friend that I was going to kill him - referring to our habit of playing video games together after school - and in under a minute, the teacher had removed me from the classroom, where I was taken to the office and then ISS for the rest of the day, before being expelled for a brief period of time, like two days if I remember correctly, owing solely to an absolutely stellar record.
An overreaction, even for the fact Columbine was literally less than a year fresh, especially given that not once - from the teacher laying hands on me, to the district staff informing me face to face of my expulsion, asked for input that might you know, provide any context beyond "Oh hey, words.", neglecting even the tone of their delivery or their reception. My friend was just as confused as I, even after the fact. They never even bothered asking him about it. None of the kids sitting by had reacted because they knew all we talked about was either video games or sci-fi and fantasy books.
Back to the issue proper, given other factors *cough* Sophia, her handler, etc *cough*, Blackwell's failures are magnified in extreme. On Bet, in BB, post-bombing, after referential punching? Yeah, no.
And hey, even if we ignore Taylor trying to go to the district before, after that, there damn well actually is a paper trail now, and your entire stance is orders of magnitude more pointless, 'even for the sake of argument'.... as she can use that troublemaker bullshit nobody would fucking care about in that position TO HER ADVANTAGE.
I'm not.
First, fanon really likes to overstate how dangerous the locker was, there's no way the CDC was going to get involved because of that.
Second, a single incident, no matter how bad, is a single incident and not assumed as the fault of the school administration just an indication of how messed up kids can be. Now if there was a pattern of incidents that the school ignored? That would be very different, but with no paper trail Blackwell can easily claim she had no way of knowing about it.
That's not even a question of fanon, that's just simple basic scientific fact. Pretending otherwise is like stating you believe in that 10% of the brain garbage Hollywood loves. It instantly destroys your credibility and implies a lack of general intelligence, much less relevant knowledge.
Rotting human refuse is not fun to play in.
A single cut from shaving her legs or city buses being garbage and there's an instant vector for infection, and a weakened immune system from stress can mean she doesn't need to sit in it for hours or overnight like some fics to develop issues, even if not resulting in amputations, organ loss, and so on.
Decomposing biological material, bad. Menses, one of the more concerning brands.
The CDC can and frequently does get itself involved in STD or other "minor" outbreaks, so arguing they have no grounds for involvement there is... just plain dumb.
