Simple Thoughts

So I was sitting in Political science, and a story popped up in my head. I heard it years ago, apparently this is a true story.

A grade 2 class was heading out to a field trip, and the teacher told 20 kids to wait on the sidewalk. The teacher had to get some approval and paperwork done by the school office, so she went inside, the kids were outside by themselves, and a few kids decided to play on the streets (where the roads were), one kid said, no, didn’t you hear what our teacher said? she said we have to stay on the sidewalk because our teacher told us to, but no one listened, this kid kept insisting, stay on the sidewalk, the teacher told us to stay on the sidewalk. The other  kids laughed at him and said “no, you should come on the roads”

moments later a truck was coming down the road, he saw all the kids on the road, and he tried to avoid them so he wouldn’t crash into them, so he steered away into the side walk and ended up crashing into the kid, the one kid who listened. The kid ended up dying.

I don’t know where exactly, or who exactly I heard this story from, but its been almost 10 years since I last heard it, even now, I still cry when I remember that story. I thought, that kid didn’t deserve to die, the other 19 kids did. He did what was right, he obeyed, but… . Why?

The teacher who told me this story said the moral of this story is: Go with the crowd, no matter how right you are, it is best to stick with the crowd, its terrible, but that’s life.

I tred to think of a better moral to the story because that moral just doesn’t seem to comply, but really, is that the fact?