CALGARY- A tragic accident at a Calgary-area elementary school has school boards across Alberta reviewing their policies concerning the use of lanyards.
On Wednesday, an eight-year-old boy was found unresponsive in the washroom, with the lanyard he wore around his neck caught in a cubical door.
A teacher performed CPR on the boy until paramedics arrived, and he is now in hospital in critical but stable condition.
The incident has raised concerns about lanyards, which many students are require to wear with their school identification for safety purposes.
At some schools like Webber Academy, children wear lanyards that are designed to break away only when buying lunch. They are asked to put them back in their classroom for the rest of the day.
School officials say the incident in Bearspaw, Alberta serves as a wakeup call.
“The head of the school and I…learned all the teachers that we had spoken to had heard and the news, and checked their own classrooms and checked the lanyards,” says Barbara Webber.
The Calgary Board of Education says some of their schools use lanyards, and it’s up to individual schools to decide if students should wear them. Under the Catholic School Board, none of the elementary children use lanyards.
With files from Bindu Suri
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