Reply #132: it would be far cheaper for the school if it's a class action

[TorchTheWitch]

You don't need to inform me about class actions, I worked them for years at one of the biggest exclusively class action firms right in the district where this took place. I grew up in this area and still live here.

If each student's family filed their own lawsuit against the school over this same issue the settlement money piled up would FAR outweigh that which would pile up if each family were included in a single class. The more plaintiffs attached in a suit, the less each one gets. Class actions always benefit the defendants and the attorneys involved ultimately stiffing each plaintiff.

You better believe the school is praying this becomes a class action if it isn't proclaimed so already because they already know it's going to cost them and their only option is to minimize that cost. Those parents that are grumbling about this case because they're afraid their taxes will go up will be the first ones jumping on the bandwagon to get their cut of a settlement once they realize a settlement is likely to be paid. The loudest grumblers are the ones who live in the district and have to pay the taxes but send their kids to the private schools which makes them ineligable to get any cut of a settlement... they grumble about having to pay the taxes for the public schools they don't send their kids to anyway and always have.

The case was originally filed as a class action and I've yet to see any indication by the court that it was not accepted as such. The suit does not speak for all the families of the schools in the district, it speaks for those families of the schools in the district who wish to join the suit. Any families who have a problem with it are free to NOT join the suit. Any families who pay the district for the schools but don't want to hold the schools accountable when they do wrong because they're afraid their taxes will go up can cheerfully go fuck their selfish greedy selves because that attitude means they're more concerned about what's in their pocket than what's happening to their kids and/or their neighbors kids and sends the message to the schools that they can do whatever the hell they want with the tax money they pay them because they're too chickenshit to hold the schools accountable.