Is seems like a phone call to the parents would have been a first step

[INdemo]

but instead a school forcefully bathed an 8 year old and now they are in deep water and should be.. ..



Parents' lawsuit: Third-grader forced to bathe at Texas school

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/16/12258691-parents-lawsuit-third-grader-forced-to-bathe-at-texas-school?lite

[morningfog]

1. Looks like a good lawsuit. Sounds like assault and battery to me.

With an extra dose of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Hope they win big.

[hlthe2b]

2. Wow.... Surely there must be more to it. If they really didn't try to discuss with parents...

they are surely SOL on that lawsuit, I do believe.

[Major Nikon]

4. From what I read, it really was that simple and that stupid

The school's excuse was that they didn't want to put the child through the humiliation of calling the parents.

You can't make shit up this good.

[gopiscrap]

3. Typical

abuse of authority what do you want to be the folks that did this vote Republican?

[fortyfeetunder]

5. They might have made that kid terrified of taking a bath.

How much effort would it have taken for the parents to be called for a sanity check? Sometimes kids go through a phase of not wanting to take baths.