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No Special Duty Owed by School to School Employee Injured by Students Who Collided with Her

The Second Department determined that a school’s duty to supervise students does not extend to an adult school employee injured when two students collided with her:

A school district may not be held liable for the negligent performance of its governmental function of supervising children in its charge, at least in the absence of a special duty to the person injured … . Under the doctrine that a school district acts in loco parentis with respect to its minor students, a school district owes a “special duty” to the students themselves … . Accordingly, a school district may be held liable to a student when it breaches that duty, so long as all other necessary elements of a negligence cause of action are established … . The special duty owed to the students themselves does not, however, extend, as a general matter, to teachers, administrators, and other adults on or off of school premises … .

Here, the defendants established, prima facie, that they did not owe the plaintiff a special duty… . Ferguson v City of New York, 2014 NY Slip Op 04464, 2nd Dept 6-18-14

 

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