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It does sound as though the teacher with them managed to save most of the kids according to one of those who went to help, & on realising a boy was missing, almost collapsed -  going by an earlier news report.

But the fact remains that the school should have postponed the trip until the weather was better.

It is sounding like the school had a risk assessment prepared but it was disregarded as the situation progressed. Safety strategies are only effective if they are followed by those involved in the activity concerned.

I suspect that the lessons learned from the Mangatepopo Canyon disaster and the Paritutu Rock tragedy will play a significant role in apportioning blame in this latest school pupil's death. Hopefully similar events can be avoided but I'm not confident that will be the case.