What happened is his child tried to eat a hamburger too fast and wound up choking. That is the proximate cause of his death. The business with the cell phones and everything else has very little to do with it.
Perhaps if somebody had been trained in First Aid and been on the spot to render help, this child could have been saved. But if you are waiting 20 minutes for the ambulance to rescue a choking victim, they're going to be 15 minutes too late. Whether they get there is 20 or 22 minutes is irrelevant.
"...What happened is his child tried to eat a hamburger too fast and wound up choking. That is the proximate cause of his death. The business with the cell phones and everything else has very little to do with it..."
You are 100% correct. The poor child died because his airway was blocked and oxygen was eliminated to his brain, heart, and bloodstream. Brain damage and subsequent death likely occured within moments of each other.
It seems that many are willing to embrace the whole "blame game" right off the bat. My understanding is that contemporary students "sass" teachers on a whim these days. Maintaining order amongst these little angels must take an enormous amount of effort, what with a couple hundred kids in a typical school...all enamored with their cellular telephones.
I find it difficult to believe a teacher encountered upon a student choking to death and promptly slapped the telephone out of the hands of a student calling emergency rescuers. There has got to be more to this story.
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What happened is his child tried to eat a hamburger too fast and wound up choking. That is the proximate cause of his death. The business with the cell phones and everything else has very little to do with it.
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What struck me was that this young man was rushing to finish his lunch. Why? Because he was not allowed to take food outside.
Why did he have too little time to eat? If the school was responsible for his having too little time, why wasn't he given more time?