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Old Aug 19th, 2008, 06:28 AM     #1
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Confused 6 year old broken her arm in 4 places at school

Hi,I'm wondering if anyone can help me.
2 weeks ago, my 6 year old daughter was pushed off a 1.5m slippery slide at school by another student at lunch break. My daughter's friend (also 6 years old) had to take her to the school's office.
At the office an administration assistant applied ice and a band-aid to her arm and had her lie down on a bed. Approximately 20mins later, my husband and I were called to come and pick her up as she 'has a sore arm'.
My problems are that:
1. No teacher was on playground duty at the time of the incident;
2. No teacher was seen on the way to the office;
3. The playground has children ranging from ages 5 to 13 years;
4. My daughter was pushed off (not down) a high slide;
5. No ambulance was called;therefore no immediate treatment was had. We were back and forth from doctors to x-ray departments and then the hospital. 5 hours passed until a cast was put on.
6. My daughter had to share a bed with another young girl who was sick;
7. Not all staff at the school are first aid trained;
8. My daughter was in excruitiating pain;
9. The school has never called to interview my daughter as to what happened, and has never called me at home to check on her progress;
9. My daughter cannot participate in any sport/physical activity for at least 3 months;
10. She has been recommended to not continue her gymnastics for about 6 months;
When my husband went to pick her up from the school, she had started going into shock. He immediately took her to our local doctor nearby, who agreed she was in shock (hot and cold sweats, nausea, delerious).
We were sent for x-rays, which discovered a transverse supracondylar fracture above the elbow (4 breaks in total).
Pediatric orthopedic surgery has not yet been ruled out as one of the fragments of bone is out of alignment. Follow-up x-rays are beind conducted in another week.
She will have a fibreglass cast on for 8 weeks.
We have only been at this school since the beginning of Term 3, about 6 weeks ago. It is a private school.
The school has not contacted us about the incident, so we organised an interview with the principal, who totally agreed that all of our concerns are warranted and all that had happened was inexcusible.
The school has no insurance for accident and injury, and we are so far 'out of pocket' $350.
All we are wanting is to cover our expenses, but the school does not seem to want to continue with any of it anymore.
What can we do and what are our options?
Thankyou for any responses and help,
Leah
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Old Aug 25th, 2008, 01:16 AM     #2
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Hy Sam11.
first i will pray to god for recover very fastlly. i read your problem .You can often ask to appear just by phone to argue that the court does not have jurisdiction...

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