Thelma v. Board of Education of City of St. Louis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “relatively isolated incidents cannot, as a matter of law, be said to comprise a persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional misconduct”
• holding a plaintiff must allege that the defendants knew their training was insufficient to state a claim for deliberate indifference
• finding that a principal’s claim that he was never trained was insufficient to invoke liability where “the record clearly indicates that the Board [had] developed and implemented polices and procedures for handling complaints of sexual abuse”
• finding evidence that child abuse procedures had been effective in an earlier incident involving a different teacher weigh against notice
• finding “five complaints scattered over sixteen years cannot, as a matter of law, be said to comprise a persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional misconduct.”
• finding five complaints over sixteen years insufficient widespread pattern of unconstitutional conduct

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