{"id":207,"date":"2002-06-12T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-12T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenbooks.wordpress.com\/2002\/06\/12\/touch-teacher-responds-to-litigation-threat-from-failed-student\/"},"modified":"2002-06-12T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-12T17:01:00","slug":"touch-teacher-responds-to-litigation-threat-from-failed-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/06\/12\/touch-teacher-responds-to-litigation-threat-from-failed-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Touché – Teacher responds to litigation threat from failed student"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text of the teacher’s response<\/a><\/p>\n

In your letter, you write: “It is certainly a shame that a young lady’s life has now been ruined forever and she will be scarred for life.” This is hardly the case. The student would be a very capable student if she would apply herself, study and get her assignments in on time. Instead of being scarred for life, perhaps she will learn these lessons now, rather than when she is in college or in the work force.<\/p>\n

As far as your threat to litigate this case, do what you must. I do not believe you have a sustainable cause of action in this matter. You may also want to explain to the student’s parents the rules of discovery cut both ways. I think your clients would be better off investing their money in summer school tuition for the student rather than wasting their money on attorney fees, litigating a case with little likelihood of success. <\/i><\/p>\n

::: Jen stands up and applauds :::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text of the teacher’s response In your letter, you write: “It is certainly a shame that a young lady’s life has now been ruined forever and she will be scarred for life.” This is hardly the case. The student would be a very capable student if she would apply herself, study and get her assignments in on time. Instead of being scarred for life, perhaps she will learn these lessons now, rather than when she is in college or in the work force. As far as your threat to litigate this case, do what you must. I do not believe you have a sustainable cause of action in this matter. You may also want to explain to the student’s parents the rules of discovery cut both ways. I think your clients would be better off investing their money in summer school tuition for the student rather than wasting their money on attorney fees, litigating a case with little likelihood of success. ::: Jen stands up and applauds :::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}