OMAHA — The family of an eighth grader who died after eating a granola bar given to him by a teacher will be compensated in a wrongful death claim with Papillion-La Vista Community Schools.
The district recently reached a settlement with Tom and Jill Shaw, parents of Jagger Shaw, and will pay a lump sum of $1 million in exchange for the district’s release of liability. The settlement notice was presented to the school board at its meeting Monday.
Jagger’s parents declined to comment. But in a Facebook May 7, 2022, post, Tom Shaw said earlier that morning while at school, Jagger asked his teacher if he could go to the office to get a snack. Jagger was in eighth grade at Liberty Middle School.
“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,” Tom Shaw wrote.
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Jagger went to the nurse’s office at 9 a.m. to get allergy medication before he eventually had to be given an EpiPen, Shaw wrote. Jagger was then taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where he died later the next morning.
The settlement money will be paid from the district’s liability insurance. Papillion-La Vista officials could not be reached for comment.
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Nebraska has 72 districts with slow internet - here are the 10 slowest
Nebraska has 72 districts with slow internet - here are the 10 slowest
Access to high-speed internet in schools has come a long way in the last decade. In 2013, 70% of U.S. schools lacked an internet connection of 100 Kbps per student, the minimum speed the Federal Communication Commission set to meet basic classroom needs. By 2018, fewer than 2% of schools failed to meet that threshold.
As more schools integrate technology into the classroom, the need for fast, reliable internet is even greater. In 2020, the FCC upped the bandwidth minimum to 1 Mbps per student—10 times faster than the previous minimum. Nearly 6 in 10 school districts met or exceeded that benchmark in 2021—a 25% increase year over year, according to an analysis from Connect K-12.
Still, nearly 28 million U.S. students lack adequate internet speeds to effectively and regularly engage in digital classroom learning.
Stacker compiled a list of school districts in Nebraska with the slowest internet speeds using data from Connect K-12. School districts are ranked by internet speed in Mbps. Ties are broken by the number of students in the school district.
#10. St Paul Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.44 Mbps
- Total students: 687
- Cost per Mbps: $1.77
- Total monthly cost: $530.45
#9. Harvard Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.43 Mbps
- Total students: 232
- Cost per Mbps: $2.92
- Total monthly cost: $291.51
#8. Sidney Public Schools
- Bandwidth per student: 0.43 Mbps
- Total students: 1,166
- Cost per Mbps: $1.18
- Total monthly cost: $592.31
#7. Gretna Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.42 Mbps
- Total students: 5,778
- Cost per Mbps: $1.12
- Total monthly cost: $2,231.74
#6. Bellevue Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.41 Mbps
- Total students: 9,689
- Cost per Mbps: $1.24
- Total monthly cost: $3,725.87
#5. Millard Public Schools
- Bandwidth per student: 0.4 Mbps
- Total students: 23,535
- Cost per Mbps: $0.55
- Total monthly cost: $3,309.02
#4. Papillion-Lavista School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.36 Mbps
- Total students: 11,509
- Cost per Mbps: $2.35
- Total monthly cost: $7,052.92
#3. Scottsbluff Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.34 Mbps
- Total students: 3,236
- Cost per Mbps: $0.95
- Total monthly cost: $950.60
#2. Wayne Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.33 Mbps
- Total students: 906
- Cost per Mbps: $1.48
- Total monthly cost: $444.95
#1. Elkhorn Public School District
- Bandwidth per student: 0.26 Mbps
- Total students: 10,528
- Cost per Mbps: $1.23
- Total monthly cost: $2,467.50
