Jackson v. Chicago Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• stating that willful and wanton misconduct requires evidence that the defendant knew, or should have known, “that the absence of supervision posed a high probability of serious harm or an unreasonable risk of harm”
• lack of supervision in educably mentally handicapped classroom not willful and wanton misconduct because school had no knowledge of prior behavior problems by student who threw chalkboard clip and injured fellow classmate
• lack of supervision in educably mentally handicapped classroom not willful and wanton misconduct because school had no knowledge of prior behavior problems by student who threw chalkboard clip and injured fellow classmate
• “[P]laintiff must show that the teacher or school was aware or should have known that the absence of supervision posed a high probability of serious harm or an unreasonable risk of harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).