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Originally Posted by Hessen
The legal responsibility is with the parents not the school.
A few weeks ago my son set off a fire alarm at his school because he was screwing around swinging his arm while walking by an exit (this is during an after school volleyball game). As a result the Fire Dept. had to come.
My wife stayed behind and called the principal to let her know what had happened as no one else knew why the alarm had gone off.
The principal told her that knowing my son she wouldn't have us billed the cost of the Fire Dept responding but that usually the parents are fined $300 if a student causes an alarm to go off.
Much smaller scale but we as his parents would have been legally responsible for his actions and any damage incurred. That being said $50K is an astounding sum. Is there anywhere that lists the damage? Water damage, electrical, etc...
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Exactly, that is a lesson to a 14 year old. $50,000 is just punitive to the parents. Unless the lesson is supposed to be "Hey, remember the time I put a padlock on the fire alarm and torpedoed my parents retirement?!"