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Artifact #5 Tort and Liability

Karen Gonzalez

EDU 210-001

Professor Hooks
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Abstract

This paper is about Ray Knight, a middle school student, was suspended for three

days due to unexcused absences. School district procedures require telephone notification

and a prompt written notice by mail to his parents, the school only sent a notice by the

student, who threw it away. Rays parents were unaware of his suspension. On his first

day of suspension. Ray was accidentally shot while visiting a friends house. In this paper

I had to find if Rays parents have defensible grounds to pursue liability charges against

school officials.
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Ray Knight, a middle school student, was suspended for three days due to

unexcused absences. On his first day of suspension. Ray was accidentally shot while

visiting a friends house. The school district procedures require telephone notification and

a prompt written notice by mail to his parents, the school only sent a notice by the

student, who threw it away. Rays parents were unaware of his suspension. Rays parents

have defensible grounds to pursue liability charges against school officials because

althought the school could not have predicted this accident from happening they failed to

follow their procedures. As far as the parents were aware, Ray was at school in a safe

environment.

The court would rule in favor of the parents in this case since the district did not

follow it's written procedures. The liability will be placed on the school district, Ray's

parents will be successful if they can show that the district did not follow the procedures

they had in place. It can be shown by phone records, they did not received no calls from

the school. Policies are written to protect everyone involved. If someone does not follow

the policy then they need to accept the consequence. Unfortunately in this case, maybe if

the school would have followed the policy, Ray would have been at home or under the

care of someone and would not have been shot.