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Assignment #3
Reyna Franco
Can a school be charged for injures to a student? In this scenario, a middle school student
Ray Knight was suspended for three days due to unexcused absences. The school only sent a
notice by the student, who threw it away. Although school districts procedures required
telephone notification and a prompt written notice by mail to his parents, as which the
procedures were not followed, Ray’s parents were unaware of his suspension. During his first
day of suspension. Ray was accidentally shot while visiting a friend’s house. Do Ray’s parents
One court case that supports Ray’s parents is the court case of Jerkins Ex Rel. Jerkins v
Anderson and the Pleasantville Board of Education. This case involved a 9-year-old boy who
was struck by a car after the school day ended with an early dismissal. The child’s family
members, who typically walked him home from school, claimed they did not know about the
early dismissal. The Appellate Division found a duty on the part of the school district to exercise
care. That duty requires school districts to adopt and comply with a reasonable dismissal
supervision policy, provide adequate notice of that policy to parents and guardians and comply
with parents’ reasonable requests regarding dismissal (Jerkins Ex Rel. Jerkins v. Anderson. 922
Another court case that supports Ray’s parents is D.C. v. Landry Parish School Board
(2001). In this case a father D.C. brought this suit individually and as tutor of his minor daughter,
K.C., to recover the damages arising from an incident which occurred when K.C. attempted to
walk home from East Junior High School in Opelousas, Louisiana, on September 5, 1996. D.C.
named as defendants the St. Landry Parish School Board; Robert Morrison, the principal of East
Junior High School; Ryan Hooks, the vice-principal at East Junior High School; Earline
Neil Mark Lewis, a man who sexually molested K.C. on that day. After trial, the trial court
One court case that supports the school in which Ray Knight was attending is Collette v.
Tolleson Unified High School District. In this case a high school student was killed and others
were seriously injured in an automobile accident that occurred off campus during lunch hour.
The plaintiff argued that the school was negligent in allowing students to leave campus for lunch
in failing to enforce its modified closed-campus policy. The school argued that it had no duty to
Unified School District No 214, 203 Ariz. 359, 362 (App. 2002). The court in this case ruled in
Another court case that supports the school is Barnett v. Caldwell, S17G0641. In this
case, High school student Antoine Williams tragically died after engaging in horseplay with
another student while his teacher was out of their classroom. Antoine’s parents filed a complaint
against Appellee Phyllis Caldwell, who was Antoine's teacher at the time of his death. They
alleged that Caldwell was liable in her individual capacity for Antoine's wrongful death because
she had been negligent in supervising his classroom. The trial court granted Caldwell's motion
for summary judgment, concluding that she was entitled to official immunity because her acts
were the product of discretionary decisions concerning the supervision of students. The Court of
Appeals affirmed. Barnett v. Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys., 339 Ga. App. 533 (792 SE2d 474) (2016).
Granted certiorari to consider this ruling. Conclude that student supervision is not unalterably
discretionary in all respects, but here, because the school's policy was not so definite as to render
In my opinion, in the case concerning Ray Knight I find that the court will rule in his
favor. Due to school officials not following the proper school district procedures they breached
its duty of care. If Ray Knight’s parents had been made aware of his suspension the accident may
not have occurred. Just as in the case of Jerkins v Anderson the courts ruled on June 14, 2007
that the school owed a duty to exercise care. Therefore, in the case of Ray Knight the school was
negligent in its duty to follow school procedures, which led to the improper supervision of a
References
Barnett v. Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys., 339 Ga. App. 533 (792 SE2d 474) (2016)
Collette v. Tolleson Unified School District No. 214, 203 Ariz. 359, 362 (App. 2002).