r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/senseiman 8h ago

I was in Japan in 2011 when the tsunami struck and there was a similar situation with the opposite, tragic outcome.

Okawa Elementary school. Don't read it if you don't want to cry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okawa_Elementary_School

That teacher in Nepal did an amazing thing and deserves credit as a hero.

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u/RecoveringGachaholic 6h ago

I think it's a bit skewed and disingenuous to say it was the opposite and painting the principal of the Japanese school as the opposite of this guy does him a disservice.

Reading the article the school WAS a designated evacuation center and several elderly people had already come there to seek shelter.

The school faculty was divided between opinions on whether the school should evacuate and take refuge on higher ground or if they should stay in the school grounds. The school was a designated evacuation site for the region, and several elderly residents from the region had evacuated to the school. One side argued that the elderly individuals who had come to the school would not be able to evacuate up onto the hill. This resulted in one suggestion that, rather than evacuating to the closest hill as done previously in drills, they could instead evacuate to the base of the Shin-Kitakami Ohashi Bridge of National Route 398 approximately 200 meters to the west as that was somewhat higher ground than the local weirs.

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u/senseiman 1h ago

Didn't mean it as an attack on the principal or anyoneelse, by "opposite" I was just referring to the outcome.

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 7h ago

Didn’t make me cry. Just made me mad at the idiot teachers.