Harmless Fun
The first week of high school in gym class was swimming. This didn’t happen in my class, but the class after. This kid was playing a game with his friends in the water to see who could hold their breath the longest. It was just harmless fun—until it wasn’t.
He was going up for air and hit his head on the pointy part of the gutter, and never made it to the surface. His friends didn’t notice, and the teacher didn’t notice either. Eventually, some football players coming back to the locker rooms noticed, but it was too late, as the kid ended up passing on.
The teacher was fired, although I wouldn’t fully blame him, as he was attending and teaching kids who didn’t know how to swim or weren’t strong swimmers.
One adult for over 60 kids? That sounds like the school’s fault to me. Story credit: Reddit / millennial_dad