A Toronto court has found that teacher Nicholas Mills is not guilty in connection with the drowning of a teenage student Jeremiah Perry during a canoe trip at Algonquin Park in 2017. The charge was criminal negligence causing death. In her decision, Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell said the conduct of Nicholas Mills, a C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute teacher who was in charge of the school trip, did not “reach the level of moral blameworthiness necessary for criminal liability.” CTV
Would any teacher have said no?
Here’s what The Bulldog wrote in 2017: Others might have done the same. Rather than deny Perry the broadening experience and inclusion that the trip represented, they would have found the risk/reward odds favoured letting the boy go. That would have been against the rules and wrong. But it is easy to understand.
