Remember the Principal with a primary age child, dragging child along by the arm? He was suspended but later re-instated.
I remember a case where a child picked up a chair and threw it and hit a child on the head. Child died as a consequence.
At a school I was in at a camp where the kids were canoeing in a river, everyone ordered out, and they began packing up the safety jackets, clothing, paddles, canoes, organise kids etc. and unbenown to anyone, one child slipped his canoe back into the water. He drowned. The parents sent a letter of condolence to the teachers on that camp. One teacher gave up teaching as she couldn't take the pain of that loss. In the playground one student offered another a drink from his "water" bottle. It contained a mix which was accessed from the science laboratory. One swig from the bottle and the child offered the drink, fell to the ground. The teacher who was on duty that lunchtime (supposedly able to supervise large areas of yard, quadrangle, locker bays, canteen, sports ground, parking bays etc, which was totally never possible), needed to go to court as the representative of the Education Department.
Sometimes strangers appear on the school property and taking too much interest in talking/interacting with the kids. If you are on duty what do you do, leave your duty and report the person, speak to him yourself, etc.
Whoever thinks the responsibility of being a teacher is easy knows little about the job.
