Where does the permit culture come from?

Every culture is unique and not the same as others. According to the social environment, each culture has been developed and adopted in different way.

My daughter is 4 year-old preschooler, who goes to school 4 days a week. Yesterday, I got a call from her school. It said that she had a scar on her cheek because she fell down by being pushed from behind. The school answered that she was OK as I worried her condition.

That day, my husband went to school to pick her up, but he did not know about her scar because I forgot to tell him about that.

She had a 2-2.5cm long scratch close to her lips. My husband was really upset when he got to know that the school did not take any action to treat my daughter's hurt. He understood that a kid gets hurt by mistake, yet he was unable to accept the fact that nothing had been done for my daughter. He demanded an explanation of the immediate cause of hurt and the reason why they did not give her the first aid. The school told that they had no responsibility and liability for that according to the law of Colorado. They added that they could not do anything without any agreement of parents.

In fact, it is a kind of culture shock to Korean whose culture appeals to our emotions / feelings rather than to our law or rule. In Korea, it is common sense that teachers apply the antiseptic, the curing ointment or the bandage without asking permit from the parents of a child. Even if the law does not prescribe those duties to school, they are bound to take a child to the office and get her the first-aid treatment. We neither have any process of getting permit from parents to do a first-aid treatment or getting consent of parents to release the responsibility of the school;the commitment of waiver.

I am thinking why the American has the permit culture. Maybe they seem to call for the permit for fear of getting accused. Sometimes, it could be reasonable, but oppositely this permit could free the school from the too much responsibility.