Jennings v. Oceanside Union Free School District
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In *508an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Ort, J.), dated March 9, 2000, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.
A school is not an insurer of the safety of its students (see, Mirand v City of New York, 84 NY2d 44, 49; Farrukh v Board of Educ., 227 AD2d 440). Rather, a school is obligated to exercise such care over students in its charge that a parent of ordinary…
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