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Superintendent flags liability concerns if students are released to non-guardians after events
Summary
Superintendent Henry told trustees that releasing extracurricular participants to custodial parents carries low liability, but the risk rises sharply if students are released to other adults (grandparents, siblings, friends); no policy change was adopted.
Superintendent J. Henry raised liability considerations related to allowing extracurricular participants to be released from events to others for transportation home instead of requiring district transportation back to school. Henry said the liability risk of releasing students to custodial parents or guardians is relatively low but increases exponentially when releases extend to grandparents, siblings, teenage friends or other non-guardians.
Henry identified additional questions for the board to consider if it wants to change the practice: whether students must stay for the entire event; how coaches feel about potential changes; whether the practice should be sport- or activity-specific; and how and why the existing practice arose. The minutes record this as a discussion item; no policy change, motion or vote on this topic occurred at the meeting.
Board members did not record a decision at the meeting; the topic remains under consideration and may require further guidance from coaches and the district’s liability carrier if the board pursues a policy change.
