My son broke his arm but I’m not going to sue
I barely heard my cellphone ringing over the wails of my six-year-old. It was a spring night at SickKids hospital in Toronto, and my son, Cameron, lay with his swollen arm propped on the rail of an emergency room gurney. He?d fallen from a set of monkey bars during a class visit to a city park, and the damage wasn?t minor: He?d need immediate surgery to wire together his shattered left elbow. It would be several months before he regained full use of his arm.
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Kids need risky outdoor play?here's why How this happened wasn?t clear. Our kid couldn?t explain it?he was too busy crying?and evidently none of the teachers on the trip had been watching when he fell. Which might explain the discernible apprehension in the voice of his school principal, who?d wasted no time in tracking down my number. ?Sooo,? he started solicitously, ignoring the sobs in the background, ?I hear, um, Cameron took a fall"? The principal had cause to worry beyond his no-doubt-genuine concern for one of his students. The cost of staff inattention in such situations has been well established by the courts, dating back to the late 1950s, when a Toronto student fell on some ice in the schoolyard and received $10,000 in damages. Over the decades, the stakes have gone up: A 13-...
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