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.

Anonymous wrote:There is a difference between danger to yourself and others and their parents are probably wealthy enough to pay the school off. This is not a CPS issue as CPS handles abuse and neglect, not child mental health. All you can do is talk to admin and they ask the parents to get the child mental health treatment.

Look for a new job.

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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?

Anonymous wrote:There is a difference between danger to yourself and others and their parents are probably wealthy enough to pay the school off. This is not a CPS issue as CPS handles abuse and neglect, not child mental health. All you can do is talk to admin and they ask the parents to get the child mental health treatment.

Look for a new job.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Document, document, document. And even better if you can create a shared doc incident log with other teachers/team members/counselor and someone from admin included. The troubling behavior is probably happening in other classrooms as well.

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.

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.