I think the brain damage may have occurred before the stupid experiment…

Yes I remember reading that. It's crazy. I do feel bad for the family and all but to sue the teacher and ruin his career seems a little much. So the teacher did not say that it was dangerous to put the electrical tester on his nipple. Don't most of us know the dangers of electricity long before we hit our teen years?

I think this is a case of 'curiosity kills the cat'. Incident like this should not have happened if the teacher is more alert. Teenagers are daredevils and like challenges. But accidents do happen. The damage is done and there is nothing that can bring back the girl to normalcy. Very unfortunate incident that caused an upset in the teacher's career. This is now left to the court of law whether to implicate the teacher for irresponsibility on his charges.

It makes you wonder what they were thinking! I cannot believe the teacher let them do it. I cannot think of anything right at the moment.

Oh good grief. I can't read the article right now because I'm answering from my e-mail. But I'm assuming the teacher didn't know he was going to do it. It ticks me off that the teacher is getting so much grief. It was their stupid son who is responsible! It's horrible what happened, but the fault lies with him and the other kid. Whatever happened to accepting personal responsibility? It's pathetic.

hi paula why on earth did the kid do that and the other kid plug it it, and why did the teacher let them do this? I think three fools got together in that electrical trades class. I do hope these two idiot kids are not actually going to go into electrical trades as I pity the people whom they do work for. with pea brains they would be dangerous in electrical trades.This is the worst save for a little side thing that happened to us today. Some of us residents went shopping today at Target. well the three of us were done and went outside to wait for the Gold Crest Van. the fourth lady came over to us and keep murmuring fix it, fix it and we kept asking her what she meant. She had four tops each worth about ten dollars apiece atop her walk, they were not paid for, we told her she had better go back in target and pay for them. It turned out she did not have any money. She meant fix it by giving her money to pay for the four blouses. now none of us had that much left and I havelearned here not to lend money to anyone as some have not got much brain power due to strokes and what have you. so fix it will be engraved on my brain as meaning lend me some money.

I hear and see stuff all the time that leaves me stumped but that would have to be one of the nuttiest things I have heard lately. Wow..in an electrical class and not knowing how much current and what it will do to him shows me there is a teacher that hasn't taught proper saftey or students that wanted to show out and didn't take it seriously. Just awful.

You would only think it would be common sense that a person would be electrocuted trying this stunt I mean we are taught from the time we are in nappies that messing with electricity is dangerous and I feel that this person knew this knowledge..just chose to ignore it. Heck if anything the kids that helped in the matter should be charged not the teacher. I mean he didn't tell them to do something so stupid..I think the teacher should get his job back.I know he resigned but dang..if he is teaching kids like this it is a wonder he resigned.

I don't know about NH but in every school I have taught in students have to pass a state approved safety test. No where on the test does it state that you should not try to electrocute yourself. Maybe we should hold the test writers from the state to blame. In the teacher';s defence most shop classes I have seen are held in a very large area with smaller rooms and work stations. I am sorry for the student but I don't think the teacher should be held liable for the action of moronic stupid students who don't understand that electricity KILLS. I don't know how many public service announcements are made each year telling people this. The student should be sued for ruining a teachers career.

Definitely, somebody wasn't thinking. Not quite the same level of eedyotcy, but while out walking a past a place that obviously is going to have a new fence installed: two huge bundles of lumber on the lawn. The posts, which would have to be installed first, are on the bottom.

The teacher didn't warn them? Good grief, how many stupid things do you have to warn kids about? OK he probably should have told them not to mess with the electrical stuff with out supervision, but still. Sounds like the boy and his friends were at fault here, at least 90%. Sad though...

I had not heard about this. What a stupid thing to do. How sad that it turned out so tragically. I don't think the school or the teacher should be blamed.

Well someone dropped the ball on this one. I can't even guess what really went on here. I'd like to be the Lawyer on this one.

Notice that this occurred on March 11th. That means it was most of the way to the end of the school year. There is no way that these kids didn't know that at very least something bad was going to happen. There is no way that they made it that far into school without ever being told not to shock themselves.

Sorry but I laughed! How could they do such things, they just thought they were being funny by pulling some silly stunt. Now looking at it seriously that was extremely dangerous but they're teenagers and nutters and I feel really sorry for the boy! :/