Say you’re a parent of an autistic child in Kindergarten. He lacks fine motor skills and is working on that in occupational therapy. The teacher of his class wants the kids to color a big collage to hang on the wall with markers. Your son, without much fine motor, takes a marker and makes big dots on the paper by holding the marker with two hands. However this was too much force for the markers and it squishes their tips down. She is aware of his diagnosis and challenges and has special crayons he uses typically. She is upset he ruined her markers and requests that the parents pay to replace them. Is she in her right, or was this her bad? Are the parents obligated to pay for the markers?

(This is not hypothetical, unfortunately…)