Reply #114: No you are wrong

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If a kid gets hurt while on a school sponsored activity, BOTH the school and the place where the kid got hurt (in this situation, the church) would be held responsible. Ask any attorney. It's really a no-brainer.

If the high school kid is not on a school sponsored boating trip, no, the school is not liable. And there isn't a school I know of that would ever 'give permission' to a kid to leave school and go boating.

About 20 years ago, a group of kids from a high school in St. Louis were on a field trip at a state lake and drowned. The kids had deliberately walked away from the group but the school was held liable as well as the state, since they died on state property. The teachers who were chaperoning the trip were also held liable AND they lost their jobs.

In my district, a kid was run over by a bus after he got off. He was chasing it and waving to his friends still on the bus. The bus turned a corner and the kid slid under the wheels. The bus company was sued, the school district was sued. The parents were awarded several million dollars. The bus driver was fired and so was the school principal.

So yes, we are held liable all the time for anything that happens to a kid during a school sponsored activity.