Parents Sue School After Student Shocked In Class

Quote: Originally Posted by critter171

"- The family of a Dover high schooler shocked during his electrical class is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.The parents of Kyle Dubois claim in the lawsuit that he suffered permanent brain damage and some memory loss after he put alligator clips to his chest and was jolted.The lawsuit claims that Thomas Kelley was negligent, failed to understand the danger the electrical cords posed and didn't adequately supervise the students while under his care.

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Personally i went to this school and i had this teacher, and i can say without a doubt he would never ever do this. The student 18 now was 17 at the time does not know the danger of electrical?

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Somebody is lying.

Quote: Originally Posted by CUBert

"I was talking about my fantasy baseball team with one student, and then the next thing I know, there was a commotion," Kelley said. "I heard, you know, an 'Ouch!' and I look, and there's Kyle going to the ground."

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

The kid decided to electrocute himself in class. If he's that stupid, you can't blame the teacher.

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

The kid decided to electrocute himself in class. If he's that stupid, you can't blame the teacher.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

That is one of the problems these days, too much of this sh*t goes on.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bar Sinister

The student suffered "brain damage?" That must have been rather minor.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ron in Regina

The world is sure changing. Alligator clips on his chest?

Way back when I was in a High School Electronics class, this was how we ended
every class. The Teacher had a hand-crank-generator form an old-old telephone....

We'd all link hands (including the Teacher) and the people on the ends would each
put a hand on one of the terminals on that generator. Someone would start to crank
it slowly....and the class was the closed circuit...and the electricity would start to
flow through us.

The cranking would slowly get faster & faster, increasing the charge....until someone
would let go....breaking the circuit. Then we'd all laugh, & maybe do it again, & then
head off to our next class. By the end of the year, we could all handle quit the charge,
as nobody wanted to be "that guy" who was the first to let go. Nobody sued anyone.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ron in Regina

The world is sure changing. Alligator clips on his chest?

Way back when I was in a High School Electronics class, this was how we ended
every class. The Teacher had a hand-crank-generator form an old-old telephone....

We'd all link hands (including the Teacher) and the people on the ends would each
put a hand on one of the terminals on that generator. Someone would start to crank
it slowly....and the class was the closed circuit...and the electricity would start to
flow through us.

The cranking would slowly get faster & faster, increasing the charge....until someone
would let go....breaking the circuit. Then we'd all laugh, & maybe do it again, & then
head off to our next class. By the end of the year, we could all handle quit the charge,
as nobody wanted to be "that guy" who was the first to let go. Nobody sued anyone.

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

There is a whole bunch of info lacking in the article. Like the voltage and amperage involved. Sounds like the brain damage occurred long before high school.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tonington

Sounds to me like it's a family trait...

Quote: Originally Posted by taxslave

There is a whole bunch of info lacking in the article. Like the voltage and amperage involved. Sounds like the brain damage occurred long before high school.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

Yeah, but people were sane in those days.