Most would agree that school districts have some moral obligation to prevent bullying, but there is an open question of whether a district is legally responsible for failing to act when they knew about a threat. A New York school district recently settled a lawsuit for $4.2 million after a middle school student was paralyzed by a bully’s punch. In 2006, Sawyer Rosenstein, then 12, was punched in the stomach. Two days later, he found himself unable to walk due to a blood clot. Rosenstein has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. In a lawsuit, Rosenstein’s New...
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