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Decision Points

Supervision of students is dependent on two key factors. ·  Does a duty to care for the safety of someone else exist? ·  Did the school employee exercised the amount of care required by the foreseeable degree of risk (the duty of care is higher in more hazardous circumstances than in less hazardous circumstances -- shop class is more hazardous than the library; therefore, requiring more supervision). Courts also say that younger children have even greater risks because they are "less able and less likely to discern danger.

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