Crisp County School System v. Brown

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Appellants Crisp County School System et al. appeal from the order of the superior court denying their motion for summary judgment. This appeal arises from a suit for damages.

On September 16, 1994, appellant Wendell Herndon, a physical education teacher and an employee of appellant school system, instructed his class to complete an obstacle course which required them to traverse monkey bars. One of his students, Fredrica Brown, told Herndon that she did not think she could cross the bars. Herndon instructed her to try, and in doing so, the student fell from the bars…