South Dakota became the first state to enact a law explicitly authorizing school employees to carry guns on the job. Several other states already have provisions in their laws — or no legal restrictions — that make it possible for teachers to possess guns in the classroom. In fact, a...
An elementary school principal claimed that a first grader violated the school’s sexual harassment policy. The boy’s crime? He was sitting behind a female classmate on the floor and put his fingers inside the waistband of her pants and touched her skin. He was accused of sexually harassing a classmate...
School Negligence Lawsuits and Appropriate Supervision of Children Many of the school negligence lawsuits for which Education Management Consulting, LLC, provides consultation and expert witness testimony involve the question of whether a school or agency provided appropriate supervision of children when someone under its care was injured. The question asked by...
Recently another child didn’t make it home at the end of the school day. This time, it was because a substitute teacher at Bryant Elementary School in Philadelphia handed over a 5-year-old to an adult whom school personnel didn’t properly screen. Posing as the girl’s mother, a woman walked into the...
Former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced this week to 30 to 60 years in prison. The sentence essentially guaranteed that the 68-year-old Sandusky would die in prison. Sandusky, the jury determined, had abused 10 boys — all of them from disadvantaged homes. Sandusky used his connections to...