He might try one of the students, now, for all that he's not sure going that route will get him too far. Teenagers aren't likely to talk to adults on the best of days, then add in the fact that he's a stranger, who's snooping around, and well, yeah. He's not sure how this is going to go, but he feels like he needs a kid's perspective on all this, too, so he is going to give it at go.

Dealer's choice as to which kid he ends up talking to.