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It's an unfortunate event. I do feel for the boy, he's so young to already have this happen to him......but accidents are accidents. I'm not sure if the dad will get anywhere asking for a monetary settlement. I think the school is generous in offering to pay for the ambulance bill. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Like others have said, if they offer a settlement where does the line get drawn on who "deserves" money or not??

Maybe he just wants everyone to know about it & to talk to their kids & tell them to pay a tenting in class. Listen to your teachers instruction carefully or this could happen to you ! !

will just fork over money like that for an incident. I don't think the division is obligated to pay anything including ambulance costs. The only way I could see the father getting the money would be through the courts and if the courts find negligence on the part of the teacher and the Division.  
 
And we are also only hearing the one side of the incident. There's always 3 sides to the story. The Division and the teacher are likely bound by privacy law and can't say anything to the media.

braid said "Maybe he just wants everyone to know about it & to talk to their kids & tell them to pay a tenting in class. Listen to your teachers instruction carefully or this could happen to you ! ! "

Wish this was the case, but he says in the article that "down the road he'd like to discuss monetary settlement". If it was just for informational purposes that comment wouldn't have been made.  
 
He doesn't really sound like he is owning any responsibility of his son's, which would be the message that your implying he could be trying to put out there.  
 

This is absolutely nuts. I cant believe cbc even did a story on this. Yes its to bad and sucks but it isnt anyones fault. Like many other things in life, when your doing anything there is a certain amount of risk. It isnt always someones fault. Accidents happen all the time. I understand maybe talking to to school but demanding meetings with a superintendent after youve already spoken to an assiatant about it, and talking about having a money settlement??? Lets see this for what it is. Someone wanting to capitalize on an accident to line their own pocket a bit. Pathetic

Cheezies said "    braid said "Maybe he just wants everyone to know about it & to talk to their kids & tell them to pay a tenting in class. Listen to your teachers instruction carefully or this could happen to you ! ! " Wish this was the case, but he says in the article that "down the road he'd like to discuss monetary settlement". If it was just for informational purposes that comment wouldn't have been made.     He doesn't really sound like he is owning any responsibility of his son's, which would be the message that your implying he could be trying to put out there.     "

i wonder if it was a question the reporter asked and Dad answered as "uh down the road we might want to talk monetary" but it wasnt his first thought, it really is hard to know but i do think the school board could be a little more proactive in talking with the family

Maybe their investigation is still on-going. Where I work, it can take several weeks or months for incident review committees to gather information, assess it, consolidate it, and create an official report. If the father wants to know what happened, he should talk with the shop teacher. The school board wasn't present when the incident took place.  
 
Edited by ultraguy, 2016-02-25 10:55:43

There's an article in the Brandon Sun today(front page) about this whole incident. For anyone who has or will comment on this, I recommend reading the article. In the article the father says that its not about the money at all and all he wants is answers about what happened which he every right to and speak to the school division. He also recognises it was an accident and his son shouldn't of been wearing gloves. But that's only a small part of the article and the article CBC had and the article the Brandon Sun has, information wise, are different.  
 
Edited by The_Young_Man, 2016-02-25 11:59:34

There are always two sides to every story, and I know this teacher very well and he is a dedicated, husband / father / friend / teacher / community guy. He is very cautious and genuine for everything he does, and I spoke to him a few day's after this incident and he was a total mess for this particular student / and his family, as well as all of his other students!!! We need to know the whole story here before people make judgmental decision and comments.