Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The trial court properly refused to charge the jury that the defendant was under a duty to use special skill and care as set forth in PJI 2:15. The proper charge, and the one given by the court, was PJI 2:227, which provides that the Board of Education has "a duty to exercise the same degree of care toward the students in its custody as a reasonably prudent parent would exercise under comparable circumstances" (
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