Charleston Lack of Supervision Attorney

It is easy to take for granted that your child is in safe hands when he is at school. Many parents assume that a student will remain secure and protected under the watchful eyes of teachers or other school employees throughout every moment of the school day, but that is sadly an unrealistic expectation. Whether in the classroom, hallway, or elsewhere on the school grounds, there are a number of times in any given day that your child is inadequately supervised.

A Risk to Children

Certainly, it seems like it would be difficult for students in a classroom to go even momentarily unsupervised, but it happens. For example, if in a lapse of professionalism the teacher steps out of the classroom to speak with someone, the children will be left wholly unattended on the mere spoken agreement that they intend to behave.

When there is the potential for such a failure to supervise in the classroom, one can begin to imagine how rampant these failures are apt to be on other school grounds, including the playground. For elementary school aged children, recess is a needed break from the academic demands of the day, and they are eager to get their energy out.

Usually this effort takes the form of engagement in physical sports and games that involve a great deal of running around. Were children to be tripped intentionally or unintentionally while not being observed, slowness of response to the incident could result in lasting physical trauma or health effects. Of course it is understood that supervising children is not an easy task, but that does not excuse any failure to supervise students at school.

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If the failure to supervise a classroom or playground created conditions that caused harm to your child, contact the Charleston lack of supervision attorney of the Steinberg Law Firm at 843-720-2800.