Safety at School
Posted by Guy on April 21, 2008
Supreme Court: Japanese Schools NOT responsible for Kids safety!
Gacuette says: The Supreme Court’s Political Ruling is Unsafe and the overpaid, underqualified judges ought to be ashamed of themselves for caving into the whims of a despotic regime. The facts are:
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Youngsters can and do act foolishly [they have done so since time immemorial.]
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Unsupervised, they are likely to cause injury to themselves or others at ant time and without premeditation. Those imbeciles in the supreme court should be expected to know better.
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Teachers are ought to be trained professionals [that may not be the case in most Japanese schools] and must assume responsibility for the safety of the young while they are at school under their charge.
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There’s an implied responsibility for the safety of our youngsters while they are at school and therefore the schools are liable for any injury that might occur. Otherwise, the schools MUST allow parents or their representatives to stay in the classrooms to protect their children.
Conclusion: Youngsters’ safety at school is the primary and incommutable responsibility of the school. Children can and do harm themselves or others and they do so without any prior warning, if left unsupervised. The schools must act proactively, therefore, to prevent accidents from occurring. They must provide constant supervision and be unwaveringly vigilant to protect the youngsters who are trusted in their care.
The Tokyo High Court’s earlier ruling that ordered the city to pay compensation as the operator of the school where the incident occurred was a sound decision. Perhaps, the judges in the Tokyo High Court would do a better job in the supreme court than the incompetent incumbents who have composed this farcical travesty.
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See below for the report:
Supreme Court rejects lawsuit over city’s responsibility for accident in school
(Mainichi Japan) April 19, 2008
CHIBA — The Supreme Court has rejected a damages lawsuit filed against the Chiba Municipal Government by the family of an elementary school girl whose right eye was injured by a classmate at school.
The ruling overturns an earlier decision by the Tokyo High Court, which ordered the city to pay about 860,000 yen in compensation as the operator of the school where the incident occurred.
The girl was injured in May 2002, when a vest that the male classmate was swinging around hit her right eye. At the time, the teacher in charge of the class was talking to another pupil. In the lawsuit, the girl and her parents had argued that the teacher had neglected his responsibility to oversee the boy who injured her.
The top court rejected the claim, however, saying the teacher could not have predicted that accident would happen and had no responsibility in the matter. The court pointed out that the boy who injured the female student usually caused no problems, and until he swung the vest around he had not been behaving unnaturally.
An initial district court ruling in the case dismissed the lawsuit filed by the girl and her parents. However, a high court later ruled that the teacher had been negligent in failing to oversee the whole classroom. The Chiba Municipal Government had filed an appeal against the high court ruling.
The girl and her parents also sought damages directly from the parents of the boy, and a ruling that ordered the parents to pay about 860,000 yen in compensation has already become fixed. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/archive/news/2008/04/19/20080419p2a00m0na007000c.html
