A wave of nausea crept over me Monday morning during my habitual Internet browse for news of the art community. I came across, seemingly hundreds of articles describing the horrifying accident of a sixteen year old student, who lost eight fingers during an art class at Giles School, in Boston.
BBC news reported that, in order to create the desired sculpture of her hands, the child was instructed, by her teacher, to place her hands into a bucket filled with plaster of Paris. Shortly afterwards, the girl realised, to her horror, that she was stuck. NewsFlavor explains that up to 60C can be generated within large quantities of plaster of Paris. This means the girl sat there, hopeless, while her hands were being burnt beyond recognition.
She underwent not one, but twelve operations and was still left with only two fingers. Take another look at the photo. Can you imagine the pain that girl had to endure?
A very effective article on this incident was published by the Boston target. It was highly informative, highlighted the importance of pupil safety in schools and emphasised the school's failure to report the incident to the Health and Safety Executive.
This outrageous tale does, however, not end there. A fine of a mere £19,000 was issued to the school. This is, in my opinion, nothing but an insult to the severity of the injury that that poor girl experienced. She is crippled, maimed and forever marked by this calamity, and £19,000 is all they could give?
How could this possibly be called justice?
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