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Originally posted by momoftwo
While there's lots of good about where we live, there are also lots of kids who have no limits and whose parents look in the wrong direction when things go wrong. Those dynamics were definitely in play in the hazing situation. Wonder what the task force is going to have to say about that?!
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My guess is, they'll blame the school, because you can't blame the parents who belong to the booster club and are in junior league and donated all that money to the lacrosse team. When I was in high school there was a very small hazing incident, nothing of this magnitude, and I was on the victim end. I got punished slightly less than the offending girl, but nobody even thought to ask her parents why their 18 year old daughter thought it would be a good idea to make a sophomore eat mud. They blamed the school, the coach, the athletic department...her dad even made a comment about how I should have stood up and took it. I think sometimes in affluent communities we get so hung up on people's last names and what they've done that we let their kids get away with extreme things. Another case in point would be all the kids around here who get pulled over for drunk driving and have the cops drive them home, no tickets, no questions.