legal protections for private school teachers

[Anonymous]

Name the school. C’mon, you feel better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Say a private school teacher has a student who they believe is a danger to themselves or others. And say their admin disagrees and is keeping the student at the school anyway. What happens if that student hurts another kid and the hurt kid's parents sue the school or the teacher? Does the teacher have any protection in this situation?

In public school, the teacher would have access to the wide and deep resources of the union legal team. But I'm new to private school and I'm worried about being sued if this child eventually hurts another kid. Realistically, he's most likely to hurt me or other staff as that is where he directs his anger. (and realistically, if he does hurt me, I will sue the crap out of the school because imo, they are being totally negligent) But I also want to figure out if I could be sued by anyone else he hurts.

Most private schools don’t tolerate violent children - where do you work?

Completely not true. 1000% not true.

Privates take the money period.

We can start with the obvious Landon. When a school protects DV which is what they did with Hugley case there is no way that kid wasn't "violent" at Landon.

You just completely made something up. Hiding on an anonymous forum. Put your real name behind accusations like this.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like a CPS call could be a good form of documentation. (Just one part of it, but a valuable one.)

[Anonymous]

It could qualify as institutional abuse with cfsa in dc (dc’s cps). If you’re in dc it may be worth a call- you’d be reporting against the school for their lack of action

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why you think you, personally, would be sued in that case. For one, you would not be liable. But just from a practical standpoint, if there's a lawsuit they are going after people who have money to pay out. That's the school, not you.

Regardless, the issue here is not a potential lawsuit. If you truly think a child is dangerous and your admin is not acting on it, your only real recourse is to make a report with CPS. Whether or not that goes anywhere depends on what concrete evidence you have that this child is a danger to himself or others. Your report will be anonymous but your admin will likely connect the dots once they are contacted by CPS, so be prepared to lose your job. As you know, you don't have the protections that a union would provide.

And ... the armchair lawyering by someone who clearly never set foot in a law school is back. OP, don't take legal advice from the internet. No actual attorney is going to read a few sentences on the internet and say "For one, you would not be liable." Nor would they say "the issue here is not a potential lawsuit".

Anyone can file a suit against anyone. Whether or not you will be liable is another issue altogether. Nonetheless, you would need a lawyer to defend even a frivolous lawsuit, and in this case, the school should provide the lawyers. But will they?