Although it’s a 1950s New York case, Dunham vs. Village of Canisteo, 303 NY 498, and its thinking are very widespread. I don’t know if having a bad government policy regarding Cruz constitutes a sufficient “ministerial relationship” with the Parkland students to support a wrongful death action. I’m not a lawyer, just spent 18 years working for them. And that is the legal question that a lawyer would have had me research, if I still worked for them. But I don’t. So I won’t.
These children were required, upon pain of their arrest and/or their parents/guardians, to be in that school at that time. There was a reasonable expectation of security. Those magic words have worked before in shootings at privately owned facilities where people were in a building in return for a bi-weekly check. This is why employers insurers with a no weapons on campus policy and signage cough up dough immediately in the cases where someone just cant read.