A school has agreed to pay $1million (£823,00) to the family of a student who died after eating his teacher's granola bar.
The Papillion La Vista school board voted on the wrongful death settlement of 14-year-old Jagger Shaw on Monday evening after the student died in May, 2022.
Jagger, who attended Liberty Middle School in Nebraska, US, was offered a granola bar after he asked to go to his teacher's office for a snack.
However, he soon fell seriously ill after consuming half of the bar.
Dad Thomas Shaw said in a Facebook post at the time: “The teacher said you can have one of my granola bars, so Jagger took it and got halfway through eating it and felt like he was starting to have an allergic reaction."
Few details about what happened last May are included in court documents because the settlement was reached through a probate court process and not a civil lawsuit.
He did not describe Jagger’s allergy in the post nor say if the school was aware of that allergy.
Thomas said Jagger went to the school nurse’s office where he was first given the allergy medication, Benadryl.
However, it didn't help, so the nurse gave Jagger an epinephrine shot with an EpiPen.
He was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he died May 7, 2022.
The school district’s liability insurer will pay the settlement.
The school payout comes after a 14-year-old girl was "forced to show her bra" in front of her headteacher during a search for a vape.
The student, who attends Heartland Middle School in Oklahoma, US, was accused of bringing in a nicotine vape pen into the school campus.
In a lawsuit filed against the school from the daughter's mum, it is claimed the student was subjected to a strip search in a room “with an uncovered window that has a clear view to general access areas of the school."
The mum also claims her daughter was asked to lift her shirt high enough so Veronica Johnson, the school's headteacher, could “view the minor child’s bra.”
The strip search was conducted in front of Ms Johnson, a school resource officer and another student.
The lawsuit claims the schoolgirl was "improperly and unreasonably subjected to a strip search" which left her suffering from "emotional distress."
Ms Johnson is named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with Edmond Public Schools and Heartland Middle School.
