Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
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Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
Indian teen died on unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia in June: Report
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them.
Published: 05th September 2023 08:21 PM
SINGAPORE: Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.
Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students were part of the group, the news report said.
In an email sent to Kaira's parents on June 1, UWCSEA informed that their daughter had died while in Cambodia for the school’s project week.
As per the school guidelines, students have the option of going on an overseas field trip for project week as part of the Grade 11 curriculum, and that it is “designed to support readiness for independent life” after graduation.
The process is supervised by a teacher who does not go on the trip.
UWCSEA head of college Nick Alchin said in an email on June 7 that the school is planning to have an external investigation done into the accident in addition to reviewing the project week guidelines.
Alchin said the final report will be submitted to the audit and risk committee of the school’s board of governors, which is responsible for reviewing school processes.
However, one parent told The Times that it has been nearly three months and there has been no update on the incident since the June 7 e-mail from Alchin.
“The school has not informed the parents of the outcome of the investigation and obviously expects that this has been forgotten throughout the summer holidays. As a parent, I feel voiceless and cornered."
The parent, who didn't wish to be named, also asked why the school would allow students to go on an overseas trip without being accompanied by an adult.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... 11970.html
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them.
Published: 05th September 2023 08:21 PM
SINGAPORE: Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.
Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students were part of the group, the news report said.
In an email sent to Kaira's parents on June 1, UWCSEA informed that their daughter had died while in Cambodia for the school’s project week.
As per the school guidelines, students have the option of going on an overseas field trip for project week as part of the Grade 11 curriculum, and that it is “designed to support readiness for independent life” after graduation.
The process is supervised by a teacher who does not go on the trip.
UWCSEA head of college Nick Alchin said in an email on June 7 that the school is planning to have an external investigation done into the accident in addition to reviewing the project week guidelines.
Alchin said the final report will be submitted to the audit and risk committee of the school’s board of governors, which is responsible for reviewing school processes.
However, one parent told The Times that it has been nearly three months and there has been no update on the incident since the June 7 e-mail from Alchin.
“The school has not informed the parents of the outcome of the investigation and obviously expects that this has been forgotten throughout the summer holidays. As a parent, I feel voiceless and cornered."
The parent, who didn't wish to be named, also asked why the school would allow students to go on an overseas trip without being accompanied by an adult.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... 11970.html
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Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
I find absurd that the people in charge to sell intelligence don't seem to have any sample on them.
What's next, teaching kids to make their wooden toys on their own in a sawmill ?
What's next, teaching kids to make their wooden toys on their own in a sawmill ?
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Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
Attention please
All dying children must be supervised. No unsupervised dying permitted
Punishable by resusitation
All dying children must be supervised. No unsupervised dying permitted
Punishable by resusitation
Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
Sending minors on unaccompanied school trips is wrong, informing parents about the passing of their child by e-mail is wrong and utterly senseless.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:18 am Indian teen died on unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia in June: Report
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them.
Published: 05th September 2023 08:21 PM
SINGAPORE: Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.
Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students were part of the group, the news report said.
In an email sent to Kaira's parents on June 1, UWCSEA informed that their daughter had died while in Cambodia for the school’s project week.
As per the school guidelines, students have the option of going on an overseas field trip for project week as part of the Grade 11 curriculum, and that it is “designed to support readiness for independent life” after graduation.
The process is supervised by a teacher who does not go on the trip.
UWCSEA head of college Nick Alchin said in an email on June 7 that the school is planning to have an external investigation done into the accident in addition to reviewing the project week guidelines.
Alchin said the final report will be submitted to the audit and risk committee of the school’s board of governors, which is responsible for reviewing school processes.
However, one parent told The Times that it has been nearly three months and there has been no update on the incident since the June 7 e-mail from Alchin.
“The school has not informed the parents of the outcome of the investigation and obviously expects that this has been forgotten throughout the summer holidays. As a parent, I feel voiceless and cornered."
The parent, who didn't wish to be named, also asked why the school would allow students to go on an overseas trip without being accompanied by an adult.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... 11970.html
My review of two school processes. What a mess....
Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
I’m not sure the parents of the dead student were informed by email. I hope it was actually meaning the parents of all other students were informed via email. The first article I read didn’t say the email was sent to her parents it simply said parents. I see it is different above.Kammekor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:12 amSending minors on unaccompanied school trips is wrong, informing parents about the passing of their child by e-mail is wrong and utterly senseless.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:18 am Indian teen died on unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia in June: Report
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them.
Published: 05th September 2023 08:21 PM
SINGAPORE: Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.
Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students were part of the group, the news report said.
In an email sent to Kaira's parents on June 1, UWCSEA informed that their daughter had died while in Cambodia for the school’s project week.
As per the school guidelines, students have the option of going on an overseas field trip for project week as part of the Grade 11 curriculum, and that it is “designed to support readiness for independent life” after graduation.
The process is supervised by a teacher who does not go on the trip.
UWCSEA head of college Nick Alchin said in an email on June 7 that the school is planning to have an external investigation done into the accident in addition to reviewing the project week guidelines.
Alchin said the final report will be submitted to the audit and risk committee of the school’s board of governors, which is responsible for reviewing school processes.
However, one parent told The Times that it has been nearly three months and there has been no update on the incident since the June 7 e-mail from Alchin.
“The school has not informed the parents of the outcome of the investigation and obviously expects that this has been forgotten throughout the summer holidays. As a parent, I feel voiceless and cornered."
The parent, who didn't wish to be named, also asked why the school would allow students to go on an overseas trip without being accompanied by an adult.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... 11970.html
My review of two school processes. What a mess....
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Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
Also they are 17 and 18 years old students who presumably needed parental permission/release before coming on this trip. While obv it's a tragedy for the family of the deceased person unfortunately things like traffic accidents happen whether or not one is being chaperoned.violet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:46 amI’m not sure the parents of the dead student were informed by email. I hope it was actually meaning the parents of all other students were informed via email. The first article I read didn’t say the email was sent to her parents it simply said parents. I see it is different above.Kammekor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:12 amSending minors on unaccompanied school trips is wrong, informing parents about the passing of their child by e-mail is wrong and utterly senseless.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:18 am Indian teen died on unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia in June: Report
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them.
Published: 05th September 2023 08:21 PM
SINGAPORE: Parents have been asking for a review of guidelines on overseas excursions from a top school in Singapore after a 17-year-old Indian student died in June during one such trip to Cambodia.
Kaira Karmakar, a student of United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) on Dover Road, died in a road accident on June 1 while she was on an unchaperoned school trip to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, The Straits Times reported.
She was with a group of classmates, and there were no teachers or adult representatives accompanying them. The school declined to say how many students were part of the group, the news report said.
In an email sent to Kaira's parents on June 1, UWCSEA informed that their daughter had died while in Cambodia for the school’s project week.
As per the school guidelines, students have the option of going on an overseas field trip for project week as part of the Grade 11 curriculum, and that it is “designed to support readiness for independent life” after graduation.
The process is supervised by a teacher who does not go on the trip.
UWCSEA head of college Nick Alchin said in an email on June 7 that the school is planning to have an external investigation done into the accident in addition to reviewing the project week guidelines.
Alchin said the final report will be submitted to the audit and risk committee of the school’s board of governors, which is responsible for reviewing school processes.
However, one parent told The Times that it has been nearly three months and there has been no update on the incident since the June 7 e-mail from Alchin.
“The school has not informed the parents of the outcome of the investigation and obviously expects that this has been forgotten throughout the summer holidays. As a parent, I feel voiceless and cornered."
The parent, who didn't wish to be named, also asked why the school would allow students to go on an overseas trip without being accompanied by an adult.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... 11970.html
My review of two school processes. What a mess....
The article is not particularly well written and appears to take a tabloid-esque tone of faux outrage over the lack of chaperones rather than a report of an unfortunate accidental death.
Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
Yes, shit happens and if a teacher would have travelled with them maybe the same would have happened, but maybe not. The devil in the detail, and looking after those details would have been the teacher's job, especially with minors in tow.Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:57 am Also they are 17 and 18 years old students who presumably needed parental permission/release before coming on this trip. While obv it's a tragedy for the family of the deceased person unfortunately things like traffic accidents happen whether or not one is being chaperoned.
The article is not particularly well written and appears to take a tabloid-esque tone of faux outrage over the lack of chaperones rather than a report of an unfortunate accidental death.
I would never send my kind on an unaccompanied school trip. Basically it's a contradiction, 'unaccompanied school trip'. School trips have accompanying teachers, by default.
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Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
It sounds sort of like an exchange programme of sorts - my school back in the day had Austrian, French and Spanish kids on the regular unaccompanied and staying in host family houses. The kids from those houses would go and visit their guest's places at a later date. Fairly commonplace sort of thingKammekor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:56 pmYes, shit happens and if a teacher would have travelled with them maybe the same would have happened, but maybe not. The devil in the detail, and looking after those details would have been the teacher's job, especially with minors in tow.Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:57 am Also they are 17 and 18 years old students who presumably needed parental permission/release before coming on this trip. While obv it's a tragedy for the family of the deceased person unfortunately things like traffic accidents happen whether or not one is being chaperoned.
The article is not particularly well written and appears to take a tabloid-esque tone of faux outrage over the lack of chaperones rather than a report of an unfortunate accidental death.
I would never send my kind on an unaccompanied school trip. Basically it's a contradiction, 'unaccompanied school trip'. School trips have accompanying teachers, by default.
And these are young adults - they are at an age where independence and tertiary schooling would begin and the lines between secondary and tertiary are often blurry - there's nothing terribly unusual in a 17 year old traveling unaccompanied
Re: Concern Over Unsupervised Student Dying on Cambodian Trip
I wouldn't let my 17 year old student go to Cambodia unsupervised. Never in a million years.Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:13 pm
It sounds sort of like an exchange programme of sorts - my school back in the day had Austrian, French and Spanish kids on the regular unaccompanied and staying in host family houses. The kids from those houses would go and visit their guest's places at a later date. Fairly commonplace sort of thing
And these are young adults - they are at an age where independence and tertiary schooling would begin and the lines between secondary and tertiary are often blurry - there's nothing terribly unusual in a 17 year old traveling unaccompanied
My school wouldn't let a 17 year old go to the UK or Poland unsupervised back in the day. When we had exchange programs we always had teachers on location.
Whatever these 17 year olds do in their spare time is their own responsibility, when kids of this age travel under the school's wings it's clear for me, there's a teacher going with them. Shit happens, and you can not expect a 17 year old to deal with real shit on his / her own.
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