Educational Malpractice

During my reading this week, I saw the phrase “educational malpractice” in a number of different articles. This was most often used in cases dealing with IDEA and high school graduation. I thought more about this phrase when we were talking about growth models last night in class. I really fear that there will be a whole new level of litigation once we finally reach the critical year of 2013-2014 and whether or not any children were in fact, left behind. I wonder if school divisions have started to think about this. Couldn’t there also be cases of malpractice where parents contend that we are doing too much testing and not enough teaching?