High jump banned by Ontario board after student death

[Locutus]

The Lambton Kent District School Board in southwestern Ontario has temporarily banned high jump at its elementary schools and limited the event at the high school level following the death of a student.


The temporary ban comes after Grade 12 student Josiah Grant, who was competing in Smiths Falls in eastern Ontario, was seriously injured after high jumping, and then missing his landing on the safety mat. He later died in hospital.


Grant, 17, died about a month ago, at Kingston General Hospital, a day after the incident, according to the Upper Canada District School Board.


It was initially thought Grant suffered only scrapes and bruises. He later slipped into a coma and died.


more


High jump banned by Ontario board after student death - Windsor - CBC News

 

[spaminator]

The Lambton Kent District School Board in southwestern Ontario has temporarily banned high jump at its elementary schools and limited the event at the high school level following the death of a student.


The temporary ban comes after Grade 12 student Josiah Grant, who was competing in Smiths Falls in eastern Ontario, was seriously injured after high jumping, and then missing his landing on the safety mat. He later died in hospital.


Grant, 17, died about a month ago, at Kingston General Hospital, a day after the incident, according to the Upper Canada District School Board.


It was initially thought Grant suffered only scrapes and bruises. He later slipped into a coma and died.


more


High jump banned by Ontario board after student death - Windsor - CBC News

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[mentalfloss]

You're really obsessed with schools banning stuff.

 

[petros]

Soon they won't be allowed to stand outside.

 

[Walter]

Soon they won't be allowed to stand outside.

Or pee standing up.

 

[karrie]

Life can throw curve balls... if you move, you could die. If you don't move, you could die.

 

[SLM]

In the world of lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits every one is too paranoid to use the common sense approach of: Accident's happen.

I'm telling you, one of these days, all the kids will be bubble wrapped!

 

[TenPenny]

Let me see if I understand this.

A high school student gets injured and dies doing the high jump, so they ban the high jump for elementary students?

That makes perfect sense.

 

[taxslave]

Honey get the bubble wrap. The kids want to go outside and look at the sky.

 

[55Mercury]

typical bureaucratic knee-jerk reaction.

that's what the fools do when they haven't a clue what to do.

 

[SLM]

Honey get the bubble wrap. The kids want to go outside and look at the sky.

What!?! That's far too dangerous! Besides, isn't the sky falling?

 

[55Mercury]

What!?! That's far too dangerous! Besides, isn't the sky falling?

well actually, it is, but you may have to wear those 3-D glasses to notice it.

 

[SLM]

well actually, it is, but you may have to wear those 3-D glasses to notice it.

Can't have the kids wearing those, it could damage their eyes. Best to keep them indoors.

 

[TenPenny]

There are 2 points to be taken from this:

1 - the mats were obviously in the wrong place.
2 - there has to be some element of risk/danger to things that kids do. Without that risk, in relatively safe places, the kids will find risk/danger in other places. Yes, it's a shame this kid died, I'm not denying that. Most people want a little bit of risk/thrill in their lives, and they will find it, one way or another.

 

[55Mercury]

One can only hope this kid died doing something he wanted to do, rather than doing it because someone else put him up to it.

 

[Locutus]

Gravity: It's the Law.

 

[CDNBear]

You're really obsessed with schools banning stuff.

At ease Private Cowboy.