The Commission Scolaire de Laval has been ordered by the courts to pay $15,000 to a student who suffered severe burns at school.
The incident February 2015, when the 15-year-old boy and a friend, both in Grade 10, were at Saint Maxime High School, apparently in chemistry class.
The friend took some sodium hydroxide that had spilled out of a vial and tossed it onto the boy's head.
At the time the boy felt nothing until he left school, then noticed a burning feeling.
He put snow and ice on his head, but the water mixed with the caustic chemical aggravated the situation, causing severe chemical burns that penetrated to the boy's brain
The victim's family sued the school, the Laval school board, and the father of the boy who inflicted the burns.
With files from The Canadian Press
