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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The students parents are mow suing for $3 million.[/quote]

According to the Post, it is actually $11 million. Strangely, the lawsuit was filed in PG County. I wonder if that is where the student lives?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/parent-of-teen-in-charter-school-sex-case-files-11-million-suit-against-school-others/2014/10/28/38fa5f44-5ed5-11e4-9f3a-7e28799e0549_story.html

That would be almost perfect if the District ends up paying $11 million to a PG resident who attended a corruptly-run charter schools and was on the receiving end of this particular act, which was performed by another Maryland resident. 
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This is a charter school.  Why would the city be liable?  I thought charters had to self-insure.[/quote]

Isn't the Public Charter School Board also part of DC government? [b] Or is it a private organization?[/b]  As little actual power as PCSB has over individual charters, they are the governing agency, so they can definitely be sued, whether they are part of DC government or not.[/quote]
I thought it was a private organization, not positive on this assumption.  They are appointed by charter school members, not DC officials.  And it is not an elected body.  And yes, anyone can be sued.  I was just wondering if liability falls on the taxpayers of DC.  [b]Also, there might be a finding of liability, but what are the damages.  The boy disseminated the video[/b].
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The DCPCSB members are appointed by the mayor. I actually don't know all the legal aspects of where the liability lies, but I'd be surprise if any financial ramifications didn't find their way back to DC taxpayers one way or another.
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Re: the bolded and Jeff's point about it finding it's way back to DC taxpayers somehow, I think these are the key points:

1. Liability is not just about who disseminated the video.  While I know other minors who disseminate video of minors having sex can be charged with a sexual offense (distribution of child p- - - - (afraid to type the full work while at work!), I don't know what happens if you're the only minor in the video and you disseminate it.  I don't think you'd be charged for that.

2. What it IS about is that a teacher hired by a public school system and entrusted to do her job and not cross professional, ethical and fiduciary boundaries, that she engaged in a sexual act with a student.  That alone there is liability for the school and probably PCSB for (possibly for not keeping a tight enough rein (sp?) on how charters screen/hire/train?).  Definitely liability for the school, because they hired her and they are responsible overall for supervision in the school.

3. Then add the fact that the act took place on school grounds and yeah, you basically probably will be draining DC taxpayers of some funds because that is an egregious act.  NOT that schools are supposed to have cameras and people monitoring every room of the school every minute of the day.  But just knowing courts and juries, the fact that it took place in a classroom is going to increase the school's culpability.

A lot of whether the parents will win or not will depend on how the school's screening, hiring and training of substitute teachers looks.  If they can show they did a thorough job and she passed with flying colors, they may not lose since it was her 1st day on the job (do I have that right?  I know it was the first day of school, but was it also her first day as a teacher?).  If so, it's not like there are years of allegations of inappropriate behavior that the school ignored, etc.  So if the school can show they were thorough and had no reason to doubt her judgement, and it was her first day, they probably will not lose much.[/quote]

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