20 Md. App. 666 - Berg v. Merricks’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
March 1985
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickler Engineering Corp. v. Seminar, Inc. · Smith v. Bernfeld · White v. Friel · Turner v. Hammond · Duncan v. Koustenis
Most-quoted passages
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“"As delicate a balance exists in attempting to develop a child’s body as in attempting to develop his mind. How to maintain that balance is largely a matter of judgment. To the extent that each child is given personal attention, thirty-nine others may be deprived. Which need is given preference upon a given time is a decision made hundreds of times a day by a teacher. The problems are multiplied as a teacher comes to know his students and their various needs and differences. All of these decisions occur repeatedly every fifty minutes daily with classes of various sizes. In making sensitive 'judgment calls’ a teacher must not be made aware of the precariousness of his position, as was Damocles, beneath some economic falchion suspended by the hair of hindsight.” Id. at 675-76, 318 A.2d at 227 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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