In re W.R.

PARKER, Chief Justice.

The issue before this Court is whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding plain error in the trial court’s admission of evidence of defendant’s statements to school officials. For the reasons stated herein, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.

*246The record shows that on 19 August 2004, Jesse Pratt, the principal of Allen Middle School in Guilford County, received a call from a concerned parent. Based on the information gathered in that call, Mr. Pratt and Dr. Judy Flake, the assistant principal, went to W.R.’s classroom and escorted W.R., a fourteen-year-old…