Pre-Empting Liability in the School System

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In today’s society many school officials are being sued in the court of law. It is very important for educators and administrators to understand the legal duties and responsibilities they face. School is to be a safe place for parents to send their children and it is the duty of the teachers, administrators, and personnel to make sure this happen. Many liability issues deals with school safety, unintentional torts, liability and negligence, supervision duties, FERPA, and student record confidentiality. In our school district there are many preventive measures to curtail the need for lawsuits. According to the Arizona Professional Administrators Standard 2, the administrator facilitates the success of all students by understanding, responding to, and influencing the social, cultural, and legal aspects of the community (APAS, 2010).

In our school district safety is a main concern, whereby, strict precaution is mandated along with routines to monitor negative violence or unsafe environment. While students are in the classrooms the teachers make sure that no enter without permission from the front office and no one can enter the school’s ground without first checking into the main office. Everyone has knowledge and understands the safety rules and their responsibilities concerning the students. At the start of every school term the faculty, parents, and students are given information about safety on campus. Students are not to bring any threatening object to school and if they do, the objects will be taken from them and the parents will be notified.

Unintentional tort is simple negligence on the part of the administrators of teachers, when they do not protect students from injury or the lack of care (GCU, 2008). Our school d...

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...fe and injury free school environment for our children so that we, as parent, can feel confident that when we send our children to school, we know they will be cared for with the greatest protection.

References

Arizona’s Professional Administrative Standards. (1998) Retrieved February 6, 2010, from http://www.ade.state.az.us/certification/downloads/administrativestandards.pdf

Department of Education (2009). Family educational rights and privacy act. Retrieved February 8, 2010, from http://ww2ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/frco/ferpa/index.html

State University (2008). EDA532. module 5 lecture. Retrieved February 7, 2010, from http://angel.gcu.edu/section/default.asp

Greene, J. (2000). How teachers can avoid being sued: Law and American education. Retrieved February 9, 2010, from http://eric.gov/EricDocs/data/ericdocs2sq1/content_storage_01/00000196/80/16/03/e4.pdf

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