Expert Witness: Teaching Gymnastics On Macadam
Gymnastics can be a high risk activity in physical education. Some school districts have eliminated this curriculum area because of potential liability associated with it. I was retained in 2007 as the expert witness for the plaintiff child in a physical education class involving gymnastics.
Fact Pattern: The plaintiff was an eleven year old female enrolled in a mandatory fifth grade physical education class in a public school. The curriculum area was gymnastics,