The teen, Jeremiah Perry, 15, who drowned in Algonquin Park last month while on a Toronto District School Board camping trip, failed a swim test but was still allowed to go. His brother also failed and he too was permitted to go on the trip. Stories Wednesday tell of the swimming-test requirements for those able to participate. After failing a first attempt at learning to swim, Perry and his brother were supposed to be given more chances to learn, but were not. Nor is it clear whether time was an issue, or at what point a decision to deny the two an opportunity to go on the trip would be made. There would no doubt be enormous reluctance to tell two students out of dozens that they were being denied.