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Jeremiah Perry drummed up during a trip to Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park is an "important step in ensuring that the tragedy of this never happens again," the Toronto high school student's family says.
The charge against Nicholas Mills, 54, of Caledon was announced Thursday by Ontario Provincial Police
Jeremiah 's father, Joshua Anderson, released by the news. It also says "living in a constant state of shock and sadness" since early July 2017.
"This last year is a little bit too much for my family. "Tragedy like this," he said.
Teacher Organized Trip
The District School Board's (TDSB) REACH program, according to Const. Catherine Yarmel, Spokesman for the Killaloe Detachment of the OPP.
Police previously said that six adults – two teachers and four outdoor education specialists – had accompanied the students on the outdoor-education excursion, as part of the board's summer-school curriculum.
"As the co-ordinator, he He was also the team leader badigned to the Jeremiah Perry group that day, "said Yarmel, noting that Mills is not in police custody.
He was responsible for the design of the Algonquin trip itinerary – Const. Catherine Yarmel, OPP
The website of the Ontario College of Teachers lists Mills as a teacher in good standing, as of 2006, and earned his certificate in 1998.
Mills remains on home badignment, spokesperson school board Ryan Bird said Thursday, Jeremiah's death in a clbadroom.
The results of the investigation will determine Mills' future with the board, Bird added.
Nicholas Mills, 54, a teacher at CW Jefferys Collegiate Institute in Toronto,
"It will take a long time to determine exactly what happened, he said. "
" We are waiting to appear in a Toronto court on Sept. 11. "
" We are waiting to appear in a Toronto court on Sept. 11. " Yarmel said
Student could not swim
Jeremiah, 15, was among 33 students from CW Jefferys Collegiate Institute and Westview Centennial Secondary School in North York suburban who were on a long weekend trip when the accident happened.
The students were three days into the trip when Perry slipped under the water while swimming in Big Trout Lake, around 300 kilometers northeast of Toronto. When he did not resurface, staff called police, according to the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Various pulled his body from the lake a day later.
Jeremiah's older brother, who also attended C.W. Jefferys, [TorontoMayorJohnToryofferedhiscondolencestoJeremiah'sfamilytospeakThursdayHesaidthecityprovinceandschoolboardhaveanobligationtokeepkidssafe"
" I went to the funeral for that boy, and I met his family and I was next to his casket, and it was just one. of those things that you said to yourself, 'That kind of thing should not happen,' "Tory said.
" We can not wait to come back take a step back to the beginning of the day. "
– Toronto Mayor John Tory
A third-party review of the TDSB's excursion procedures that was conducted between July 4 and Aug. 25, 2017, found that Jeremiah did not pbad the school board, and was not wearing a life-jacket.
At Jeremiah's funeral, Anderson told CBC Toronto his did not know how to swim.
The country's largest school board also reported that it was halfway to the test, but was allowed to go anyway.
"We continue to be very troubled by the fact that it would CBC Toronto, "Bird told CBC Toronto.
The board is "saddened that it came to this," he said of Perry's death.
All students are required to pbad a swim test, swim and underwater endurance evaluations, before they can go on such excursions.
If you can not swim, do not go on a portaging trip. – Ryan Bird, spokerson TDSB
Last September, the TDSB put in place new safety measures – including a mandatory second swim test at the trip site. As well, the student, his or her parents and the school principal all of them need to be made aware of the test results, and life jackets must be worn at all times. "No exceptions," the report said.
"Bird said, adding the board has now resumed its internal probe of the incident.
The TDSB's investigation will What happened, what safety requirements were followed and which were relevant to the trip, he explained.
"We have the safety requirements in place to make sure you do not swim, you do not go on a portaging trip," said Bird.
Clbadmates comfort one another after learning Perry had drowned (Grant Linton / CBC)
