It’s Not My Fault, Its Their Fault: School Canoe Trip results in rescues

I am going to give you my kid then ignore any parental responsibility to see if you have a brain or have done any research.

Writing these blogs I want to laugh or cry but mostly I just shake my head and wonder. The article Risky Canoe Trip May Result In Lawsuit brings up several issues that I haul my soap box out for.

The simple facts are a school trip went to a canoe livery and rented canoes. The water was high and everyone ended up needing rescued. Then the fun begins.

First everyone starts pointing fingers at everyone else to avoid any liability. The canoe rental company blamed the school.

However a participant on the trip said everyone is liable. (Why is a high school senior talking this way?)

Seriously life is so bad that high school seniors worry about liability issues? What happened to worrying about beating the cross-town rival, the senior prom and getting lucky! (You know getting into getting lucky and getting into a good college.)

The mother of the senior quoted just allowed her son to go without checking anything. The rivers were supposedly up because of rain. Weather reports or windows are not available in that part of the world. Sure it’s Tennessee but rain is still rain and rivers rise when it rains.

The odds were not good for the teachers to have any chance of winning an argument with high school seniors: 62 teenagers to five adults.

Of course the school district representative is caught in the middle and promising an investigation.

Finally the issue of life jackets came up and being cool won.

The good news is no one was hurt physically, we’ll see later if anyone’s pocket book is hit because of this school trip.