School administrators are lying, backstabbing weasels. (the overwhelming majority of them. Some are not, but they are rare creatures indeed.)
To be fair, this is pretty necessary to succeed at the job. Principals in particular have to appear to be serving three different constituencies at once: parents, staff, and the central office. (students--not really on the radar except as far as they are attached to parents.)
What you need to remember as a parent dealing with school administrators is that they are lying to you. As was famously said of somebody by somebody else, every word they say is a lie, including "the." Also, as a parent, you are the least important of the school administrator's constituencies. Because, assuming they stay employed, they'll still be dealing with the staff and the central office long after you are out of their hair.
What does this mean for you as a parent?
1.)There is no such thing as sexual harassment, or bullying, or really any type of offense in school that involves your child being unsafe. Or, rather, the school administrators will never find that such a thing has happened in their school. Because if they admit it, they will open themselves up to a lawsuit. (this would put them into conflict with the needs of the central office.) So whatever the handbook says about what they will do if such a thing happens, remember: they will turn stunning logical cartwheels to find that it didn't happen.
2.)Your child with special needs will not get the services they are legally entitled to. This is true regardless of geography or income. Because to actually follow every ed plan would cost too much money and probably require additional staff. (again, conflict with the central office, and possibly the staff as well.)
So what can you do? Well, remember this, as it cuts both ways: school administrators are very busy and don't want to talk to you. Therefore, they will tell you anything to shut you up and make you go away. As long as you realize that whatever they tell you in the first meeting is a lie, you will be fine. Just don't expect that any problem with a school will ever be fixed with one meeting. The first meeting is the weedout meeting. The second meeting is where you actually prove you're serious. Many parents are too busy with the rest of their lives to hound the school on multiple occasions, so the game plan is to promise you the moon in meeting one, and, in the unlikely event meeting two ever happens, they might actually deliver, say, a small asteroid.
As long as you are prepared to make a nuisance of yourself, you can get what you want. Just don't expect it to happen the first time.
