Three educational malpractice cases and the issues arising from them are examined in this article. The cases are examined in terms of whether school administrators, teachers, and guidance counselors owe a legal duty to students to exercise the ordinary skill and competence of a reasonable and prudent member of their profession; whether educators should be accountable for failure to exercise due care in the discharge of their school duties; and whether the broad areas of tort law (negligence, intentional tort, and misrepresentation) exist in educational malpractice cases. Although the plaintiffs lost, the cases are credited with bringing forth the issues and problems inherent in educational malpractice litigation. (Author/MLF)