News February 02 2026

School flunks at caring for Child

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The Norman Manley High School in St Andrew.

A teacher’s failure to intervene in a verbal dispute between two Norman Manley High School (NMHS) students, before it turned physical and left one of them bloodied and missing a tooth, is a “clear breach of the duty and standard of care” the institution owed the injured child, the Supreme Court has ruled.

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