“Parents unhappy with Cherry Creek's handling of playground incident”

            In the article “Parents unhappy with Cherry Creek's handling of playground incident” by Daniel Smith it tells the recent story about a mother whose son had broken his leg at school after standing up for a fellow student being bullied and how the school district is dening that story all together. In this situation I am definitely on the mother’s side because she would have no reason to make up like a story like this, while on the other hand the Cherry Creek school district has a reputation to keep and protect.

After reading this article I really began to think about how liability is so important during and even after the school day. I thought about the other day when the fire alarm went off after school and there was no coach with the volleyball players in the auxiliary gym because both coaches were helping other students in the math department. When Mr. Booth saw this he was very concerned because of the huge liability there was. We as volleyball players didn’t think much of it because we were usually there before our coaches and no one has ever gotten injured before. Then when hearing Mr. Booth’s concern I thought about how if someone was to get injured we would have to run to get any sort of help instead of having a coach there right away. This article really made me rethink about dangerous the things we do at school can be and why we really do fill out all those forms and releases for everything that goes on. It really is for the safety of the students at Arapahoe High School.