A preschool environment can be a playful place or it can become the subject of legal dispute. In this case, the administrator and any attending or supervising teacher will be scheduled for a deposition to provide information about the incident. Those in attendance will have to answer probing questions from an examining attorney. Unlike a trial, the questions may not be directly related to the particular case, so anyone who attends a deposition must fully understand and prepare for the procedure.

The first rule of writing an incident report is to investigate thoroughly by asking “THE RIGHT” questions of everyone involved and anyone who might have witnessed anything and then to accurately state the facts without commentary, embellishment or speculation.