Argumentative Essay: Who's To Blame?
The parents of a 16-year-old youth who died after a football game last fall, say he was forced to take the field with a sub standardized helmet. Damon W. James, attended Westfield Academy and Central School. Damon staggered to the sideline during his Westfield/Brocton football team’s lopsided loss to Portville. On September 13. He collapsed there and died three days later in Buffalo’s Women & Children’s Hospital. Initial reports had Damon suffering to a serious helmet-to-helmet collision, which likely inflicted a fatal brain injury.(Buffalo News 1). People say that he also had a serious blow to the head in the prior week’s game at Randolph left him vulnerable to a life-threatening hit in a later contest. Damon’s lawyer stepped out of the room
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Committing something non confidential to film does not magically transform it into a secret. The school should be embarrassed to be using FERPA in that way.”(Buffalo News 2). Robert J Freeman, executive director of the State Committee on Public Access to Records and one of the foremost experts on New York’s sunshine laws, said the district should have better explained why it thinks its reports are protected by the state’s civil practice law. (Buffalo News 2). When asked about the district’s refusal to make the game videos public, Freeman reacted much like the Student Law Center’s LoMonte did. “Thats ridiculous,” he said. “You are talking about film during a game, during which hundreds or maybe thousands of people were present? no -- doesn’t make sense.”(Buffalo News 2). The district needs to release the film because, what if it has some serious issue on there that the district doesn’t want the parents to see, but it should be important because the teenager died and the parents of this player should see what went on before he
Committing something non confidential to film does not magically transform it into a secret. The school should be embarrassed to be using FERPA in that way.”(Buffalo News 2). Robert J Freeman, executive director of the State Committee on Public Access to Records and one of the foremost experts on New York’s sunshine laws, said the district should have better explained why it thinks its reports are protected by the state’s civil practice law. (Buffalo News 2). When asked about the district’s refusal to make the game videos public, Freeman reacted much like the Student Law Center’s LoMonte did. “Thats ridiculous,” he said. “You are talking about film during a game, during which hundreds or maybe thousands of people were present? no -- doesn’t make sense.”(Buffalo News 2). The district needs to release the film because, what if it has some serious issue on there that the district doesn’t want the parents to see, but it should be important because the teenager died and the parents of this player should see what went on before he