Yep.
I’ve always said I would hire the best private lawyer possible - mortgage my house if I had to - to sue the h*** out of the school, the principal (whose primary duty is to ensure the safety of the students and campus), the superintendent, the school board and anyone else I could name.
School officials, including Principals, enjoy broad immunity under the law.
Example:
Even if a school district’s veil of immunity was deemed pierced under R.C. 2744.02(B) for purposes of a claim by a student and his parents against a school district and various school officials, arising from an unprovoked assault committed against the student by another student, the district would have still been deemed immune from suit pursuant to R.C. 2744.03(A)(3) and (5), and there was no indication that the district acted recklessly pursuant to § 2744.03(A)(6); although the attacking student had a disciplinary history, he did not have the type of history of committing unprovoked assaults that would have required a duty on the part of the district and its employees to have more closely supervised the student or to have imposed harsher discipline such as expulsion previously. Aratari v. Leetonia Exempt Vill. Sch. Dist., 2007-Ohio-1567, 2007 Ohio App. LEXIS 1448 (Ohio Ct. App., Columbiana County 2007).
I know that it makes people feel good to think that they have a magic “lawsuit” button to fix all of society’s woes, but it isn’t that simple.