Federal court rules that schools are not liable for bullying.

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2. The majority had concerns.

'Dissenting judges found that the school had exercised its authority by not expelling the bully, and contributed to the danger, creating a duty to protect the victims.

"Under this reasoning, however," the majority wrote, "every decision by school officials to use or decline to use their authority, disciplinary or otherwise, would constitute affirmative conduct that may trigger a duty to protect."'


I suspect that, somewhere(s,) courts WILL find that schools DO have a duty to protect. The following is a limited discussion and not on point, but may provide food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis