This common-law doctrine, if it applies, would have obligated Milton to deal with James Driscoll with a minimal level of decency. If the allegation proves factually true — that Milton administrators got the kids to confess to a crime by delaying notifying the parents and thus interfering with the youths’ right to have parental and/or legal guidance as they faced potential criminal charges — this case could very well be the outrageous set of facts sufficient to push the Massachusetts courts to clarify, once and for all, that private schools do indeed owe their students a level of fair treatment, especially when the school acts in loco parentis (that is, in the place of the parent) but places its own perceived interests before those of its students.
Betrayal, in other words, is not included in the tuition. Stay tuned.
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