To attend the multi-day canoe trip, students needed to pass a swim test. Thirty-three students ranging ages 14 to 19 were on the canoe trip. Fifteen of them, including Perry, had failed a swim test at Sparrow Lake Camp in days prior to the trip. Mills “was acutely aware that half of the students were not competent swimmers,” Stanford said.

So they failed a swimming test and the dude let them go on the trip anyway. I can't help but wonder if he did so out of fear of being called racist.