thin skull rule
The thin skull rule is a legal principle that a wrongdoer must take a person as they find them, including pre-existing vulnerabilities. In education advocacy, it can help explain why a child’s disability, trauma history, or sensory profile does not excuse institutional harm.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…