Boy, 12, dies after falling through school ceiling

Getting out of control. Maybe I'm being too touchy about the subject seeing my mother in law passed away a week and a half ago. But still, I dont say anything funny in a kid dying. It's tragic, no matter what.
 
Maybe he was trying to see if he could bust Lionel Richie moves
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How do you know he wasn't trying to do just that...?
When I was a kid every second kid at school wanted to try and dance on the ceiling
 
supersunbird said:
Sounds like a SJW speaking.

I behaved myself at school. Now at home and out and about was a different story, I could easily have fallen out of one of the numerous big trees I clambered around in (did once, broke arm), cut down all trees?
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I don't think you know what social justice means. It doesn't apply here. Kids are dumb that's why they need grownups to look after them. That's not an opinion, that's biology.
 
Compton_effect said:
Remember Eno bombs? I had a buddy who made one, put it in his pocket, and tried to climb over a wall. Still walks with a limp.
And another one is a highly respected lawyer now. His promising cricket career was cut short when he dove into the tide-pool at Margate (again) and broke both wrists.
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When we played Knights and outlaws, we used swords made of palisade wood, sharpened the points and swatted each other. I remember the neighbours son and us fashioned bow and arrows, with arrows made from like 1cm diameter dowels. Sharpened of course but that ended pretty quickly when the neighbours son got a arrow lodged in his butt cheeck ( went about 2-3cm deep. ) :D

And Katties, who hasn't shot a mate with a katty and a marble? Or steel ball bearing.
 
skeptic_SA said:
What was he doing in the ceiling?

Shame. R.I.P.
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We used to do the same thing in high-school during Monday mass.

Some of us would sneak in the back of the hall, climb up the stairs to the entrance to the ceiling. Remove those massive lights and spit down onto the children below. No one knowing a thing.

Kids to strange shyte ;)
 
Nick333 said:
Kid's can be curious and adventurous and dumb. Best to limit the opportunities for them to accidentally kill themselves at school imo.
He shouldnt have had access to the stairs.

I can't help but feel that the school is responsible.
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Not completely responsible IMO. Kids run the gamut from little schyte devil spawn to very well behaved little angels.

You can try to police them all you want but short of physically chaining them up you can't controll them all the time. "No entry" signs, locks and threats of detention/suspension mean nothing to some children. 12 years old is old enough to know the risks of fscking around in a ceiling with 8 metres of air between you and the floor.
 
Sad day at the school

He was in the after care that's available at the school, an outside company that runs it on the school grounds.

The area where he was is out of bounds for after care kids, but when has that ever stopped us when we where kids.

Worse part, besides the death was the school's junior choir (grades 3 and under) , where having practice when it happened
 
twaatie said:
Sad day at the school

He was in the after care that's available at the school, an outside company that runs it on the school grounds.

The area where he was is out of bounds for after care kids, but when has that ever stopped us when we where kids.

Worse part, besides the death was the school's junior choir (grades 3 and under) , where having practice when it happened
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Ouch, that last is very rough.
 
Knyro said:
Not completely responsible IMO. Kids run the gamut from little schyte devil spawn to very well behaved little angels.

You can try to police them all you want but short of physically chaining them up you can't controll them all the time. "No entry" signs, locks and threats of detention/suspension mean nothing to some children. 12 years old is old enough to know the risks of fscking around in a ceiling with 8 metres of air between you and the floor.
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Less about controlling them all the time and more about locking the fccking door.
 
Nick333 said:
Less about controlling them all the time and more about locking the fccking door.
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Kids break into restricted areas all the time, even if they are locked. It's not like they run around randomly and end up in places like that. They know where they should go and where they shouldn't. But some of them just don't listen.

Who says it wasn't locked anyway? The school may be partly to blame here but so is the kid, unfortunately for him his shenanigans cost him his life.
 
Knyro said:
Kids break into restricted areas all the time, even if they are locked. It's not like they run around randomly and end up in places like that. They know where they should go and where they shouldn't. But some of them just don't listen.

Who says it wasn't locked anyway? The school may be partly to blame here but so is the kid, unfortunately for him his shenanigans cost him his life.
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+1 It's just the way kids are.
 
ponder said:
www.iol.co.za

Exclusive: Inquest finds no one could foresee the death of pupil who fell from school ceiling

Grade 6 pupil at Edgemead Primary died in the school hall four years ago
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“It cannot be expected that the aftercare was to guard all children all the time.

“I am satisfied that it was not foreseeable for anyone to go up in the ceiling. The court finds that there is no prima facie case could be proven.”
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Isn't that kinda implied in the name? Aftercare ?
 
In primary school we used to slide down the stair railing when the teachers were not around. Thinking back, we could have been seriously injured if we lost our balance and fell .
 
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