Cybertraps for Educators: Digest #2022-06-20

Some Thoughts and Observations

School Litigation. With classrooms closing for the summer around the country, the likelihood of traumatic events thankfully recedes for a few months (in schools, that is, but not necessarily in churches, malls, manufacturers, etc.). But other American institutions grind on.

In the headlines below, for instance, are several links to articles about ongoing school-related litigation. Increasingly, students and parents are suing school districts, administrators, and individual educators for failing to intervene when students were threatened with harm, including cases involving school shootings, sexual assault by educators, cyberbullying by classmates, and so on.