Maintain Order And Lose Your Shirt: Personal Liability Of Educators In The Classroom

Abstract

Professors, teachers and school administrators are increasingly faced with concerns not even thought of in previous decades.  For example, drugs, weapons, suicides, robberies, and assaults are now everyday occurrences in some educational facilities.  Being able to cope with such situations requires care and some knowledge of the law.  In addition, the danger to school employees can go even further, such as personal financial liability in the form of damage law suits by students against the school and its employees.  Obviously, the thought of an educator losing personal assets and retirement pay because of only trying to protect other students or one’s own self is daunting.