1.) Negligence is perhaps the most important concept you will encounter in this class this semester. Many of you participated in interscholastic (high school) sports growing up either as an athlete, coach, trainer, etc.
Share a bit from your own experiences where you may have encountered negligence, either personally or something that happened at your school, the local YMCA, etc.
Was there legal liability?
Could there have been liability?
What could the coach/school/organization have done differently?
2.) Now that you have learned a bit about negligence, let’s look at a real story that occurred at a summer camp involving the drowning death of a child, Yoni Gottesman.
Please watch the first video on the page as well as the one at the bottom of the page and then answer the following:
Where do you see negligence?
What standards were breached?
What would you argue if you were an attorney representing this camp?
What can we take away from this tragedy?
*Just a note that this video may be a bit disturbing, as you see a child who is drowning in a pool.
Video link: http://yonigottesman.com/media-coverage/ (Links to an external site.)