{"id":7960,"date":"2019-09-05T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:43:44","slug":"school-grounds-for-a-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/school-grounds-for-a-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"(School) Grounds for a Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No child left behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The parents of a 7-year-old student in Texas are taking legal action against the Teravista Elementary School District for violating their daughter\u2019s constitutional rights of \u201clife, liberty, privacy, bodily integrity and happiness.\u201d\u00a0On more than one occasion, the safety of the child was placed at risk when she was wrongfully placed on a school bus instead of being taken to an after-school program.\u00a0 The parents of the child, naturally concerned that something like this could happen more than once, filed a lawsuit after not resolving anything in administrative meetings with the school.\u00a0 It is not publicly known how much the family is suing for, but the family hopes a court of law will accurately award them fair compensation.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit mentions four separate instances when the child was lost by the school and then left to fend for herself.\u00a0 On one particular incident on December 14, 2018, the child was placed on the bus and the bus driver, who was not the regular driver for that route, dropped the child off at a stop.\u00a0 Left without supervision<\/a>, the child walked the rest of the way home alone.\u00a0 On that day, both of the parents were out of town, but one planned to be back by 5 pm to pick their daughter up from the after-school program.\u00a0 After learning that she was not at school, the parent found the helpless student alone, cold, crying, and screaming.\u00a0 According to the parents, this December 2018 mistake was the fourth time their daughter was wrongfully taken on the bus when she should have remained at school. It was this last time that convinced the parents to take their daughter out of Teravista Elementary and enroll her in private school.<\/p>\n

Before being pulled from Teravista Elementary, the 7-year-old would make herself sick to avoid attending school.\u00a0 The literal fear that she would be left alone, as well as the post-traumatic stress she suffered, led the parents to at first try to resolve the issues themselves with the school.\u00a0 That approach proved useless when school officials nonchalantly explained that those types of situations were common.\u00a0 The school attempted to assure the parents that they have a plan in place to just take the student back to the school if a parent was not visibly present at the bus stop.\u00a0 The parents argue that leaving a minor child alone only one time was enough reason to take action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parents of a 7-year-old student in Texas are taking legal action against the Teravista Elementary School District for violating their daughter\u2019s constitutional rights of \u201clife, liberty, privacy, bodily integrity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[2355,1400,524,377,266],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","tag-constitutional-rights","tag-education","tag-lawsuit","tag-school","tag-texas"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}