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Boston to pay family of drowned boy $5 million
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Rest In Peace Young Kyzr. My heart is still hurting for your family.
Settlement
Now it's time for the City to mandate swimmies for all of these kids at Carson Beach. Boston (taxpayers) can't be dropping $5m on every kid that drowns.
Swimmies are actually not
Swimmies are actually not that safe. http://blog.poolcenter.com/article.aspx?articleid=6473 (cute gif at the beginning!)
But agreed that some mandated safety gear would be a good idea. Though less for the money, I'd say, and more to save the kid's lives...
Safety gear isn't the answer
The answer is adequate supervision.
Both are important
Supervision is key, but a life jacket goes a long way toward buying time in the event of a rip current forming or similar problems occurring.
Both
Agreed on both. Unless you have 1-1 monitoring, there will always be a kid who will go off on their own to explore
You and your swimmies
You are trying to get kids killed.
Test them out on yourself. See how truly ineffective they are.
Maybe if Boston Taxpayers weren't stingy
They would have fully funded the program so that all kids could have had both supervision and life vests.
Ah, no. Can't do that. Too expensive!
As an aquatic safety professional
with experience working camps and waterfront field trips, I followed this story very closely.
The city's actions were well, and appallingly, outside of industry standards. I'm sure the city's lawyers are clapping themselves on the back right now for "getting off easy" with $5 million. The city should have known better, Kyzr's life was worth so much more.