I remember last fall, after the death of the Karns High student who fell from the back of a pick-up truck (on school grounds), KCS tweaked our policy to indicate that administrators should act conservatively in such instances and always call for an ambulance.

In that board work session, Cindy Buttry and Bill Phillips both asked who would be responsible for payment to the ambulance service, but their question wasn't answered--either in the work session or in the revised policy.

Just guessing, but maybe Memphis schools are also wrangling with this need to sometimes act swiftly, without generally knowing whether an injured student's family carries health insurance?

(Quite honestly, I didn't realize a school system could require a student's private health insurance coverage.)