(1) If you drown at school, the school must be responsible.

(2) If a friend's son leaves school without authorization and drowns outside the school, the school may be irresponsible.

According to Article 13 of the Measures for Handling Student Injury Accidents issued by the Ministry of Education:

The school will not be held responsible for accidents that cause personal injury to students under the following circumstances, as long as the school's behavior is not improper; The identification of accident liability is based on relevant laws and regulations or other relevant provisions:

(1) occurs when students go to school, leave school, return to school or leave school by themselves;

(two) occurred during the period of students going out or leaving school without authorization;

(3) Students stay in school or go to school on their own during school hours such as after school, holidays and public holidays;

(4) other things that happen outside the scope of school management responsibilities.

Those who leave school without authorization may belong to the second and fourth cases mentioned above, and the school will not be liable for compensation.

In this case, you should try your best to prove that your friend's son left school without authorization and the school was at fault, such as:

(1) The school is loosely managed, and students can leave school at will during school hours.

(2) The school knew that a friend's son had left the school, but did not stop him.

(3) Even if the school is responsible for the death of a friend's son, it is not entirely responsible, depending on the size of the responsibility determined by the court.

Measures for handling student injury accidents are attached for your reference/Chinese/2002/AUG/192210.htm.

I hope the answer will help you _