If you where their parents

[auntiehill]

30 hours?

I could understand their searching privately for an hour or three, but not after dark, and certainly not for 30 hours.

Absolutely. Look for an hour or two and then call the freaking cops! What the hell?!

If these people are in charge of children's safety, then the authorities need to take a very hard look at this place.

 

[Mallory]

If it was one of my kids when they were that age, I would have been furious.

 

[Shatmandu]

I would hug my child and then do everything legally within my power to shut down that school and keep the asswipes involved from ever working with kids again.

Joe, level

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I like the name of the lake- Lake Nameless.

 

[Captain Ice]

If it was one of my kids when they were that age, I would have been furious.

I'd feel the same as you do.

Hell would have no fury equal to mine if they did this to my child. An hour or three I could see. 30? Someone needs to NOT be in charge of children's safety.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I like the name of the lake- Lake Nameless.

One of the many colourful/unusual placenames we have in Tasmania.

For example we have a Nowhere Else, a Horsepiss Creek, a Land of Little Sticks and a Mother-in-Laws Leap.

 

[John Picard]

I like the name of the lake- Lake Nameless.

One of the many colourful/unusual placenames we have in Tasmania.

For example we have a Nowhere Else, a Horsepiss Creek, a Land of Little Sticks and a Mother-in-Laws Leap.

Ooooohhh, I like that last one. Perfect place I'd love to see my ex-wife's mother visit

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I'd be upset, but I don't think a lawsuit would be necessary. As stated above, they should have tried their initial search but after a couple of hours one of them should have called the authorities while the others continued searching.

Why because it would cost money?

I'd own the entire school system. Times ten.

 

[John Picard]

I'd be upset, but I don't think a lawsuit would be necessary. As stated above, they should have tried their initial search but after a couple of hours one of them should have called the authorities while the others continued searching.

Why because it would cost money?

I'd own the entire school system. Times ten.

And a lawsuit would result in what, exactly. How productive would it be? And what benefit would it be for you to own the school system times ten? Incidentally, you would "own the school system" at the expense of tax payers. That's hardly justice and you know it.

There are far better solutions than a lawsuit.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I'd be upset, but I don't think a lawsuit would be necessary. As stated above, they should have tried their initial search but after a couple of hours one of them should have called the authorities while the others continued searching.

Why because it would cost money?

I'd own the entire school system. Times ten.

And a lawsuit would result in what, exactly. How productive would it be? And what benefit would it be for you to own the school system times ten? Incidentally, you would "own the school system" at the expense of tax payers. That's hardly justice and you know it.

There are far better solutions than a lawsuit.

Accountability for one. The jobs of the idiots involved. Sorry, you and I just don't think the same I guess. I could care less whether its at the expense of the taxpayer. This entity is responsible for my kid and they screwed up. They pay...period.

 

[Guartho]

Re: If you were their parents

Instead of calling police immediately when it was discovered the boys were missing near Lake McKenzie, some Gilson College teachers tried in vain to search themselves, officers said.

Well now, that sounds perfectly reasonable.

They failed to call police or notify parents for 30 hours -- leaving the boys to spend two cold nights alone in the forest 2½ hours' drive west of Launceston, according to investigating officers.

HULK DAD MAD!

I am among those that think we as a society call our attorneys far too often, but I'd be assembling my own dream team of J.D.s in this case.

Incidentally, you would "own the school system" at the expense of tax payers. That's hardly justice and you know it.

Would it really be at the expense of the tax payers?

Staff from the Seventh-day Adventist co-educational secondary school in Taylors Hill in Melbourne's western suburbs

Sounds like a private school to me, but I admit to being unfamiliar with Tasmania's education system.

 

[John Picard]

Why because it would cost money?

I'd own the entire school system. Times ten.

And a lawsuit would result in what, exactly. How productive would it be? And what benefit would it be for you to own the school system times ten? Incidentally, you would "own the school system" at the expense of tax payers. That's hardly justice and you know it.

There are far better solutions than a lawsuit.

Accountability for one. The jobs of the idiots involved. Sorry, you and I just don't think the same I guess. I could care less whether its at the expense of the taxpayer. This entity is responsible for my kid and they screwed up. They pay...period.

Well, I agree with you in part and I disagree with you in part. Hold them accountable -- yes. Do so through litigation that will enrich me (and mostly the lawyer(s)) at the expense of the taxpayer -- no.

And yes, I am a parent, and I would be angry; however, I would explore my options and seek out a solution rather than rushing to the courthouse.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Sounds like a private school to me, but I admit to being unfamiliar with Tasmania's education system.

It is definitely a private school but not a Tasmanian school. The school is located in Melbourne, which is the capital of the state of Victoria.

 

[John Picard]

^^Ahh, private school. Here is where a lawsuit would be detrimental and non-productive. This would definitely be a situation in which termination and/or severe disciplining of the employees involved would be more productive and have better results.

 

[CaptainHawk1]

Well ... there's a major lawsuit right there ...

I would sue them into bankruptcy.


J.

A valid question but the more important one is why were they not properly supervised so they could wander off? Get the lawyers!

They need to have a shake up at that place. This shouldn't happen. If it happened to my family, and these people covered it up, yeah i would sue them until i owned the place.

Rage, followed by the most unrelenting lawsuit known to man.

Ummmm... for what?

The response of "getting the lawyers" is typical not for Americans, but for people ignorant of civil law.

You have to be able to show actual damages and there simply are none in this case. Were they negligent or derelict in their duties? You might be able to argue that but what quantifiable damages did that negligence or dereliction result in? The kids were fine.

And before somebody chimes in and says, 1.) for punitive damages or
2.) for pain and suffering you need to understand that if there are no actual damages, punitive damages aren't going to happen and if you were thinking "pain and suffering" highly unlikely considering that this was all discovered after the fact and even if it wasn't, the pain and suffering can be argued was caused by the youths in question. Not to mention that "pain and suffering" is a loser without actual damages (hospital bills, whatever...).

You people need to understand that despite what you see on TV, you can't sue for everything.

A more intelligent approach is to investigate what went wrong and to improve future policy.

Jackpot, that's exactly what should be done. You can use the civil system to do that (such as my firm is doing right now in a pro bono case) to seek injunctive relief to make sure this doesn't happen again, but what you people are talking about is trying to get a payday which is never going to happen when in the end, no one was hurt.