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High school hazing is really coming to light in PA. There was just a case in my old high school with the soccer team.
This is the only report I found in the 2 local newspapers:
Six disciplined for hazing
Parents of six Red Lion Area High School students accused of hazing other members of the soccer team say their children are being punished for behavior that has long been acceptable in the school district.
The parents last week asked the school board to reconsider the students' dismissal from the team.
The six students were removed from the high school boys' soccer team and suspended from school for three days for hazing younger team members in an incident videotaped by another student. School officials declined to identify the six students.
Appearing at a school board meeting last week, parent Peggy McFarland said the accused students kicked balls at younger players who were backed up against a wall. No one was seriously hurt during the incident, superintendent Larry Macaluso said.
The incident followed complaints about hazing from parents who alerted the team's coaches Ben Smith and Sam Cooley, Macaluso said.
Smith and Cooley sent a letter home to the parents of all team members asking parents to discuss hazing, bullying and harassment with students so that they would understand that it was inappropriate and would be punished. Macaluso said the videotape of the incident was brought to the high school administration shortly after the letter was sent home.
The students were subsequently suspended for three days and dismissed from the team.
School board president Charles Hartman said the board would consider the parents' request.
I don't know if the school board overturned the decision.
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