A lawsuit against the Tecumseh school district and an elementary teacher over bullying injuries a first-grade student with hemophilia suffered in 2005 was tossed out of Lenawee County Circuit Court on Monday.
Man! First of all bullying injuries in first grade! Hemophilia or not what the ...?
From the report:
Michael suffered severe injuries when his arm was twisted behind his back...
Now we can't know all the details from just a news article but what's going on. I'm not sure these incidents called for a lawsuit but certainly they raise some questions about the supervision or discipline at the school, child with hemophilia or not.
As parents of a child with hemophilia we strive to emphasize that Jack is not to be treated differently or excluded from school activities. He doesn't need special attention save in the event
that an injury does happen and then he needs specific medical treatment.
So with that in mind these comments (for the purpose of a lawsuit!) stung:
“They knew he had severe hemophilia. They knew they had to protect him,” argued Hanson’s attorney, James Cmejrek. Although the teacher was not in the lunch room where the second injury occurred, Cmejrek said she failed to instruct lunch room monitors to give Michael special protection because of his condition... (italics mine)
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