What kind of idiots are going to Nigeria
The school acted properly. If the family somehow prevails, my bet is the entire school will suddenly homeschool - case closed.
And what teacher/administrator will not call in sick for three weeks straight?
Barry’s new “American dream”. Sue the taxpayers’ asses off! Woot! Now that’s what I call some serious wealth redistribution. If we had some real “judges” and jurors with brains in this country, the shyster lawyer would be thrown in jail and the freeloaders givens 10 seconds to get the he!! out of the courtroom.
Progressives will drain the limited resources of every local government and health care facility.
Well, consider the hardship this family was under. They probably had to pay for a babysitter during the day instead of receiving free childcare while school was in session.
I can understand having differences of opinion on this subject, but to sue? Money grabbers. How many trips back to Nigeria will that pay for. They should be fined for frivolous law suits.
I can see quarantining the kid if she was in one of those places where the Ebola dead were being tossed into the rivers, where the epidemic is raging out of control, but she wasn’t in such a place. That being said, a quarter-million for keeping her out of school a few days is ridiculous. I can understand not wanting to be stuck inside for days on end with a small child, but...
I have a better idea...deport the entire family back to Africa. Gutter scum.
The school is being stupid here since Nigeria is not one of those places with an out of control epidemic. They should publicly apologise to this little girl (to put an end to any stigma) but there is no way they should be paying a quarter million to the family.
Now, Obama will bring Africans with Ebola here for treatment because YOU OWE THEM! It's not their fault they were born in Africa.
It stinks that the lawyers have this country all constipated so that any thing simple and sensible, like apologizing to and making a fuss over a little girl, is viewed as an admission of guilt and indication that yes indeedy, major financial compensation is due!
If I understand school funding correctly for MN, you must have a certain percentage of students at school for a set number of days to receive state funding. If this state is like MN and parents out of fear of ebola kept their kids home and away from this girl for three weeks it could affect the budget for the school. Kids probably told their parents about a classmate’s upcoming trip to Nigeria. Word spread among the community. Parents are usually pretty good at communicating concerns to the teachers and administrators who then may have seen a financial disaster looming so put a quarantine on the returning student to satisfy the parents and not affect school funding. Just my $.02.
This is CT. The school will cave and pay them off.
Now that the two nurses have “survived” their Ebola infection, the CDC/White Hut/Medical community/Liberals will relax and get all soft on quarantines, common sense avoidance strategies, etc. etc. “It’s ok - it’s curable!” they’ll shout from the mountain tops. Bull shit, I say. Curable? -only if you’re one of the lucky few who will be admitted to one of the four specialized ebola clinics (count them, only f.o.u.r.) in the entire country that are capable of properly and safely treating the disease.
Aside from the natural inclination of the school officials to want to prevent an ebola outbreak amongst the students and then the rest of the community, they are probably less fearful of one lawsuit than of a school-load of lawsuits if any other student caught the virus.
Are the parents liberal operatives or simply victimhood-seekers? How much trouble was it to have their child at home, presumably with schoolwork to do?
How the hell do you say the kid’s name....
Are we all sick of reading stories about “Americans” with names nothing like Bob, Mike, or Tom, and more like Zippity Doo Dah?
I weep for my country, and so far I am not weeping blood like the O’bola infected being shipped here by the muslim usurper,may he burn in the lake of fire for all eternity.
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to scrap the tutor and let the child “attend’ class on skype, where she can be called on and participate and maintain her regular routine? Wouldn’t active participation lessen the alienation and build empathy of the other students to her and ease her transition back in school? Mom could provide ‘recess’ activities.