If you where their parents

[Miss Chicken]

If you were their parents

how upset would you be over this

A MELBOURNE school has been accused of trying to cover up the disappearance of three boys lost in the Tasmanian wilderness.

Instead of calling police immediately when it was discovered the boys were missing near Lake McKenzie, some Gilson College teachers tried in vain to search themselves, officers said.

They failed to call police or notify parents for 30 hours -- leaving the boys to spend two cold nights alone in the forest 2½ hours' drive west of Launceston, according to investigating officers.


The year 9 boys were among 50 students on an eight-day "resilience training camp" with 15 adults, which included teachers.

The 15-year-olds went missing at 2pm on Wednesday but the school did not call police until 7.30pm the next day. Staff from the Seventh-day Adventist co-educational secondary school in Taylors Hill in Melbourne's western suburbs phoned the students' parents to tell them their sons were lost only after they had called police.

The parents were understood to be outraged that they were kept in the dark while teachers tried unsuccessfully to find the boys.

They were furious the school had tried to cover up the fact it had lost their sons.

Tasmanian police were unable to begin the search when they were called on Thursday night because it was already dark.

A police helicopter, which left at first light, spotted the boys at Lake Nameless on Friday morning and they were rescued by 8am.

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[ShamelessMcBundy]

Well ... there's a major lawsuit right there ...

 

[Miss Chicken]

Not only did the school lose the three boys but yesterday they lost another one

A 14-YEAR-OLD bushwalker rescued today described being "the coldest I have ever been".

Tuong Pham spent the night in below-freezing conditions in the bush near Rowallan in Tasmania's remote Walls of Jerusalem National Park and was found alive and well but suffering shock and hypothermia.
The Westpac Rescue helicopter found the student from Gilson College, in Melbourne, walking down Fish River about 11am.

The teenager was still shivering as paramedics tried to raise his core body heat by the fire at the Arm River education centre at 1pm.

He became separated from the rest of his school group at 4pm yesterday.

He managed to set up a tent but his sleeping bag got wet during the night.

Rest of story here

 

[Amaris]

I would sue them into bankruptcy.


J.

 

[RoJoHen]

Who the hell did they hire to chaperone these kids?!

 

[Rii]

30 hours?

I could understand their searching privately for an hour or three, but not after dark, and certainly not for 30 hours.

 

[backstept]

absolute. barely controllable. rage.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I know I would not be happy, to say the least... And that is putting it mildly...

 

[John Picard]

I'd be upset, but I don't think a lawsuit would be necessary. As stated above, they should have tried their initial search but after a couple of hours one of them should have called the authorities while the others continued searching.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Why wasn't the coordinator fired after the first incident?

 

[An Officer]

Looks like whoever was in charge was an idiot. At least one of them must have thought that was wrong, but if the person in charge sets a certain standard... I think they should be lenient on the junior teachers.

 

[archeryguy1701]

How do you lose a child after just losing and refinding 3 others? On one hand, that is rediculous and fairly unacceptable, but on the other hand, I personally think 50 kids is way too many to be having wander around the woods on a camping trip, especially for this group of teachers.

 

[An Officer]

You would think they might wanna call it a day and go home after the first debacle!

 

[Garrovick]

How did these kids get "lost" in the first place? That's the second question. I'd ask.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

A valid question but the more important one is why were they not properly supervised so they could wander off? Get the lawyers!

 

[Garrovick]

A valid question but the more important one is why were they not properly supervised so they could wander off? Get the lawyers!

I was just thinking about when I was 15. "Getting the Laywers" might be an answer, but not all of it.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

They need to have a shake up at that place. This shouldn't happen. If it happened to my family, and these people covered it up, yeah i would sue them until i owned the place.

 

[John Picard]

A valid question but the more important one is why were they not properly supervised so they could wander off? Get the lawyers!

I was just thinking about when I was 15. "Getting the Laywers" might be an answer, but not all of it.

After the disaster of the RMS Titanic both the British Government and the US Government held separate inquests. The purpose of the British inquest was to determine what happened, what actions were followed, what actions resulted in death/loss of property, and finally, formatting a solution to ensure that this would not be repeated in the future. Some people were either disciplined for their actions or reassigned.

The American hearings were more of a witch hunt (imagine that). Find someone to blame, ask invasive and inflammatory questions as to why certain actions took place, and then roundly lay the blame on certain individuals.

"Getting the lawyers" is the typical American tactic. Peoples' characters are besmirched, accusations are flung, and he lawyers walk out smelling like a rose with fat bank accounts.

A more intelligent approach is to investigate what went wrong and to improve future policy. Should someone need to be reprimanded, then so be it, but not to the extent of "getting the lawyers".

 

[Emher]

Rage, followed by the most unrelenting lawsuit known to man.

 

[ThunderAeroI]

A valid question but the more important one is why were they not properly supervised so they could wander off? Get the lawyers!

I was just thinking about when I was 15. "Getting the Laywers" might be an answer, but not all of it.

After the disaster of the RMS Titanic both the British Government and the US Government held separate inquests. The purpose of the British inquest was to determine what happened, what actions were followed, what actions resulted in death/loss of property, and finally, formatting a solution to ensure that this would not be repeated in the future. Some people were either disciplined for their actions or reassigned.

The American hearings were more of a witch hunt (imagine that). Find someone to blame, ask invasive and inflammatory questions as to why certain actions took place, and then roundly lay the blame on certain individuals.

"Getting the lawyers" is the typical American tactic. Peoples' characters are besmirched, accusations are flung, and he lawyers walk out smelling like a rose with fat bank accounts.

A more intelligent approach is to investigate what went wrong and to improve future policy. Should someone need to be reprimanded, then so be it, but not to the extent of "getting the lawyers".

"Getting the Lawyers" may be the best course of action to ensure that the above is done. Not all "Getting the Lawyers" has to be a bad thing, it can be very healing if done right. But I agree, the first response shouldn't be, lets sue, it should be, lets see what happend and if there is some gross problem or othe serious issues then sueing maybe the best way to enforce corrective measures.