Thompson v. Ange

In Thompson v. Ange, et al, 83 AD2d 193 (4th Dept. 1981) the Court considered the duty of the school to drivers injured in an accident caused by a student's operation of his car on a public highway while in transit from school to a vocational center, which was in violation of school rules. The drivers claimed that the school authorities were liable through negligent supervision and failure to enforce its own rules. The Court in Thompson held that the school authorities could not be liable because they did not owe the drivers a duty of care in the way in which they supervised and enforced their rules governing driving by commuting students. It found that the standard of care applicable to a school's supervision of its students is the same standard of supervision which a parent of ordinary prudence would undertake in comparable circumstances.