context: It was not intended to diminish the duty of care that a school owes its students to provide reasonably safe school premises for school-related activities, including interscholastic sports. "Personal injury from defective premises ... is not a risk that schoolchildren should, as matter of public policy, be required to run in return for the benefit of a public education."
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 441 Mass. 236, 236
citation_a.parenthetical: because municipalities need no "encouragement to open their schools for parent-teacher conferences," applying recreational use statute to parent's slip and fall on ice in school walkway on parent-teacher night "would upend the balance that the Legislature intended to strike 'between encouraging public access to private land and protecting landowners from liability for injuries' "
citation_a.sentence: Cf. Wilkins v. Haverhill, 468 Mass. 86, 91 n.9 (2014), quoting Ali, 441 Mass. at 236 (because municipalities need no “encouragement to open their schools for parent-teacher conferences,” applying recreational use statute to parent’s slip and fall on ice in school walkway on parent-teacher night “would upend the balance that the Legislature intended to strike ‘between encouraging public access to private land and protecting landowners from liability for injuries’ ”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 116 Idaho 586, 588-589
citation_b.parenthetical: " 'if the recreational use statute were applied to injuries children suffered while on school premises as students,' the special relationship of the school to its students would be substantially impaired"
citation_b.sentence: See id. at 149, quoting Bauer v. Minidoka Sch. Dist. No. 331, 116 Idaho 586, 588-589 (1989) (“ ‘if the recreational use statute were applied to injuries children suffered while on school premises as students,’ the special relationship of the school to its students would be substantially impaired”).