A teacher has been fired and two school administrators were disciplined this week after a 12-year-old Harlem school girl drowned on a school field trip to Long Island, the New York Times reported.

As we first reported earlier this month on our New York Injury Lawyer Blog, the girl drown while on a class trip along an unpatrolled section of Long Beach on Long Island. She was among two-dozen students on a sixth-grade class trip to the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering.

The beach was closed at the time and signs were posted that no life guards were on duty. While the waters were calm, officials said the girl was likely claimed by an underwater rip current.

Now the Times reports that an investigation by a special commissioner found that the school did a poor job of planning the trip and failed to obtain parental consent forms. Additionally, the teacher should have noticed the signs notifying guests that the beach was closed. The teacher also knew that several of the children could not swim, and should not have allowed the children near the water -- particularly without a lifeguard in the area -- the report concluded.

"There was a lack of adequate planning by the principal and the assistant principal, a failure to provide a sufficient number of adults to supervise the children at the beach and poor judgment by the teacher in charge who either failed to realize that there were no lifeguards on duty or failed to recognize the additional danger presented by their absence," the report concluded.

A New York City injury attorney can assist parents in determining their legal rights when a student is tragically injured or killed on someone else's property. Drownings are a frighteningly common occurrence in the United States, claiming an average of 10 lives per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related death for children under 14. Car accidents are the most common cause of injury death among children and teenagers. Other injuries can occur at a school or daycare center and should always be handled by a New York premise liability lawyer with the knowledge and experienced to protect a family's rights.

In this case the investigation concluded that the trip was chaperoned by a first-year English teacher, her boyfriend (who could not swim) and a college intern. The teacher obtained permission slips from the administration but never distributed them. She was fired.

The assistant principal was also removed from his administrative position. The principal was put on two years of probation.