[AXJules]

This past Sunday, the crowd met at Chipilly Woods. Apparently they tried to actually have a football game, but it quickly escalated into the sick video you saw.

What did not- no one purposely broke that girl's ankle. Chipilly Woods is really hilly and the ground has tons of holes in it, she was walking and stepped on it incorrectly. None of the guys sexually abused the girls in any way, shape, or form.
Again I'm not sitting here going, "hey at least they didn't do this!" but I'm sick of hearing people say things that didn't happen.

Glenbrook North is one of the top 5 high schools in the country, with about 2000 students. We've been given awards for leadership, academics, state sports, and the degree to which all of the students get along.
In the 4 years I went to school there, there were 2 fights on school property. The students have class, and just because 10 girls who need to have charges filed against them went out of control, does not mean that the whole HS is crap. Anyone would be lucky to grow up on the North Shore of Chicago and graduate from GBN, New Trier, GBS, or Stevenson.

Yes, I think the students of the ENTIRE area can be accused of being snobby and being handed much of what they have. But this incident had nothing to do with money- it has to do with pure stupidity. Powderpuff has been going on for 26 years, and nothing has ever happened like this. Northbrook has always been an affluent area, and the people haven't changed. Something went wrong in the raising of the 3 girls who brainstormed ways to torment the juniors. As for the rest of the crew, they were sheep. "They did not sit there and go, Mommy and Daddy have a lawyer so I'll get away with this." Instead, they too were pressured to do what was depicted as "bad ass" by a few of the popular girls. If these girls didn't have any money, it probably still would have happened. In high school its all about what a few people say- what would have happened to them if they didn't go along with it??? Its so easy to tell them to not participate, but until you have 40 people hunting you down you might not know how it feels.

Finally, I don't agree with this being on national news. I think its a horrible thing and I think the girls shouldn't graduate and should get arrested....but I honestly think it was blown out of proportion b/c the Iraq war is done, Lacy's body has been found and we're out of exciting news.