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Originally posted by AXJules
You took it out of context. Legally, willingly playing powderpuff all the other years cannot get you kicked out of school. I wrote this in response to people saying they could have made rules earlier. Legally you cannot prohibit someone from playing a "game" willingly.
This year is totally different, its a criminal activity.
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I think you WILL see students kicked out of school, or at least suspended, and not given the privilege of attending commencement at the very leasts.
The PR fallout from this is so condemning, they can't possibly do nothing, nor issue a slap on the wrist. This story is world-wide. The school, the principal most likely, and many seniors fate is sealed.
I see a LOT of legal problems coming the way of the participants AND the school. Especially the school. This is an "age-old tradition", as you seem to describe it, so it is ludicrous to assume the school was ignorant. The participants would wear shirts TO SCHOOL prior to the event. Another reason to conclude the school could not be aware.
Students SIGNED statements about participating - very very dumb. Another nail in the coffin. Just because you know ahead of the fact that violence will be a part is not a defense. That's like a bank robber who kills a teller in a robbery that the teller should have seen it coming, because bank robberies can be violent.
The trends here are so frighteningly similar to GLO hazing incidents that make the news. "It's been 'tradition.' We've always done it this way." "Just a couple of people got out of hand." "We never expected it to get so bad."
For anyone in any kind of social club - high school, GLO, whatever, who has the "it can't happen here mentality..." Look at the faces on the video. It CAN happen. Here. There. Everywhere. ESPECIALLY when this is an underground event, hidden from ANY kind of supervision, sanction, or oversight.
I haven't been this worked up over an issue in years.
AXJules - I'm not pointing any finger of blame in your general direction. In fact, based on my experiences in high school, any finger pointing would be best done in front of a mirror. But, this incident just goes to show how unexpectedly BAD an incident can become, regardless of "tradition" or "expectations."
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