Eight-Year-Old Boy Dies At School (my niece's school)
Eight-Year-Old Boy Dies At School
Monday March 19, 2007
A terrible tragedy has unfolded at a GTA public school.
Details are sketchy about what happened, but an eight-year-old child was pronounced dead after being found at John McCrae P.S. in the Major Mackenzie and McCowan area.
The youngster was discovered in the stairwell of the school in the afternoon during gym class, and immediately rushed off to Markham-Stouffville Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 4pm.
He was apparently running up and down the staircase as part of gym class, but had grown tired and started to walk with some other students at the time he suddenly collpased.
A gym teacher was supervising the class when the incident occurred and both the instructor and paramedics tried to revive him. But they couldn't.
"We were just like exercising on the stairs," a female classmate named Pooja recalls.
"I just went upstairs. I just saw him lying on the ground. And then he just started banging his head on the ground. And that's when everything happened.
"My teacher just told us to go to a different class and we just stayed there," she added.
There's no immediate word on the cause and the investigation is ongoing. The boy's name won't be released until all his family members have been notified.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_8920.aspx
Mar-20-2007 05:29
E2EK1EL
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RIP little one, I feel so bad for the poor kid That's really sad.
Mar-20-2007 05:30
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OMG, poor kid. I'm so sorry.
Some sorry ass parent petitioning to ban stairs in school in 3....2....1...
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Mar-20-2007 05:39
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i saw that on the news this evening. very sad indeed.
RIP.
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Mar-20-2007 05:42
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RIP
Mar-20-2007 05:52
geroin
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Re: Eight-Year-Old Boy Dies At School (my niece's school)
quote:
Originally posted by E2EK1EL
And then he just started banging his head on the ground. And that's when everything happened.
Mar-20-2007 06:56
RandomGirl
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Alright, I am totally going to hell for this... but I totally laughed.
I imagined a fat kid hating the excercise so much he stopped and decided to bash his head into the ground to get out of doing the work out.
Please forgive me.
BTW, I don't think what really happened is funny... just my little scenario that I came up with seemed funny.
I wonder what happened... maybe a brain aneurism?
Mar-20-2007 07:25
Sera
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The banging the head would have been a seizure most likely caused by an aneurism. Just tragic, probably a congenital defect, a time bomb waiting to go off.
My thoughts go out to the family. RIP.
A girl in my grade 7 class died the same way, except we were doing track and field when it happened.
Mar-20-2007 13:22
DigDeep
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quote:
Originally posted by Theresa
but I totally laughed.
That's really sad.
