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A physics lesson in Norway where teachers encouraged teenage pupils to walk barefoot across hot coals went disastrously wrong when seven children ended up in hospital with burns.
An investigation has been launched after the fire-walking 'experiment' during a physics class, which parents say they were never consulted about.
Some of the injured students – all boys – had to be given morphine for the pain following the stunt, which their physics teacher and headmaster also participated in.
One parent of a 17-year-old student told MailOnline that the first they knew of the fire walk was when their son called from the school and had to be taken to hospital for2nd degree burns and heavy blistering on the soles of his feet after walking on the 500C embers.
'We were never consulted about this,' said the parent, who declined to be named, 'and the school seemed to brush off our objections by saying 'the pupils all agreed', which is not good enough.'
An investigation has been launched after the fire-walking 'experiment' during a physics class, which parents say they were never consulted about
Some of the injured students – all boys – had to be given morphine for the pain following the stunt, which their physics teacher and headmaster also participated in
