Abstract
Legal accountability for public school discipline — fact or fiction?
Highlights
The third challenge identified by this article is informing public school educators/school authorities, learners and their parents/caregivers of the extent to which they could be held accountable for maintaining safe learning environments
To examine relevant case law, determining precedents laid down concerning school authorities/learners’ accountability towards maintaining safe learning environments
Harrowing local news constantly highlights the absence among South African educators of accepting legal accountability for what goes wrong
Summary
Well-being, learners must be educated under safe conditions Several authors take it one step further, pointing out that orderly and dedicated teaching conditions are indispensable facets of successful schools (Vaughan, 1975:1; Rossouw, 2003: 415; Steyn et al, 2003:xi; Oosthuizen, 2004:2; Yell & Rozalski, 2008:7). This is reminiscent of Dlamini’s proclamation (in De Waal, 2007:229) that teaching involves the right to run schools, fuelling the controversy that surrounds managing learner discipline as a factor that influences security at public schools (De Waal, 2007:229). It appears as if the majority of the people of South
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