Corporal punishment, in the form of hard paddlings delivered to the student's buttocks, was frequently administered at all three schools.
Inexperience and poor planning were blamed for the accident according to a book written by James Raffan.
[1] However,Scott Sorenson,[2][1] the lodge owner who rescued the survivors and testified at the inquest, takes a very different point of view in his book.
The parents' understanding of the accident contrasts with that put forward in Raffan's book, and aligns with that of Sorenson's book, that it was simply a terrible accident and that their sons had been the beneficiaries of good education and experiences, except for the canoeing deaths, would have been considered positively.
The school continued to operate for several years but suffered a fire and a serious car accident in which the headmaster, Frank Felletti, was injured and disabled.