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A 12-year-old Long Island student, Cesar Albarracin Guncay of Sag Harbor Union Free School District, died after a raft capsized during a school trip on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; four other people were rescued, and his body was recovered by dive teams. The district and community expressed grief, and counselors were offered to students in the wake of the tragedy.
During an annual Pierson Middle School rafting trip on Pennsylvania's Lehigh River in the Poconos, a sixth-grader, Cesar Albarracin Guncay, died after his raft capsized; he did not resurface. The body was recovered and the cause of death ruled drowning. Life jackets were in use, and safety equipment will be reviewed as investigators examine the incident. School counselors are offering support to students and families.
Six students drowned and 24 others were injured during a school trip to Abu Talat Beach in Alexandria, Egypt, prompting the closure of the beach and an investigation into safety measures amid dangerous water conditions.
Furious parents in Colorado are demanding that they be informed in advance about the gender of their children's bedmates on school trips after an 11-year-old girl was made to share a bed with a biological male who identified as transgender. The girl only found out about her bedmate's transgender identity when they told her in their hotel room. The school board policy protects the transgender student's identity, but parents argue that they have the right to know. Attorneys at the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) are advocating for parents to have the choice to opt out if roommates are chosen based on gender identity rather than biological sex.
Christian parents from Colorado have complained to their daughter's school district after she was allegedly forced to share a bed with a biological male who identifies as a girl on an overnight school trip. The parents claim that the school district's policy of hiding information from parents and students is unconstitutional. The incident occurred over the summer when the district organized a cross-country trip. The parents discovered that their daughter was sharing a bed with a transgender student only after the student informed her. The parents had to make multiple requests to have their daughter moved to another room, and chaperones instructed the girl to lie about the reason for the move. The school district's gender support plan has previously been reported on, which includes policies to keep parents in the dark about their child's gender transition. The Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has sent a demand letter to the school district, alleging that their transgender policies violate parental rights and student privacy.
More than a dozen children and an adult were hospitalized after falling about 15 to 20 feet during a school trip to Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg, Canada. The group fell off a platform inside the fort, and 16 of the victims were children between the ages of 10 and 11. Three of the children are in unstable condition while the rest are stable. The cause of the incident is not yet known.
The body of a high-school student was found in a cave system after a school group encountered difficulty when floodwaters hit in New Zealand. The student death has raised questions about why school officials continued with the trip after forecasters warned there was heavy rain approaching. Heavy rainfall and flooding Tuesday prompted authorities in Auckland to declare a state of emergency. The declaration remained in place Wednesday morning as the weather eased.
The body of a high school student was found in a cave after a school group of 15 students and two adults got into trouble when floodwaters hit during an outdoor education class trip to the Abbey Caves in Whangārei, New Zealand. The death has raised questions about why school officials chose to go ahead with the trip even after forecasters had warned that heavy rain was approaching. The heavy rainfall and flooding prompted authorities in Auckland to declare a state of emergency.