High School Athlete Consequences

[Galway Eagle]

Fine with it provided they would uphold the same standard to a Star football or basketball player. I think it's harsh, I believe ours was a two game suspension at my high school, but it's the rules and she agreed

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Fine with it provided they would uphold the same standard to a Star football or basketball player. I think it's harsh, I believe ours was a two game suspension at my high school, but it's the rules and she agreed

That would be an interesting wrinkle. What if the lawsuit was alleging discrimination by the school because they let star male athletes get away with the same infraction but not their female soccer player? Would people think that lawsuit is less frivolous?

[rocket surgeon]

Nah, coulda said to her friends, "either the beer goes, or you do."

coulda been a lot worse-how many games for drinking beer in a hot tub, eyn'er? better call saul![ /color]

[MU82]

coulda been a lot worse-how many games for drinking beer in a hot tub, eyn'er? better call saul![ /color]

Huh?

[Skitch]

Fine with it provided they would uphold the same standard to a Star football or basketball player. I think it's harsh, I believe ours was a two game suspension at my high school, but it's the rules and she agreed

Our punishment was a game for the first offense and it gained severity from there.  Perhaps this was not her first time breaking their code. 

[theBabyDavid]

Deerfield couple convicted for allowing underage drinking in the home

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-22/news/0707210566_1_sara-hutsell-underage-drinking-drinking-game

[rocket surgeon]

Huh?

does the name mark chmura ring any bells?  hartland arrowhead post prom party

[GGGG]

does the name mark chmura ring any bells?  hartland arrowhead post prom party

You’re surprised that no one got your vague reference to an incident from nearly 20 years ago?

[SaveOD238]

My daughter is a junior at Arrowhead.  She played/plays two sports.  I don't know who this student is or even if I know the family.

As soon as I saw the headline a few days ago my only thought was, "here we go again".  I'd like to think it might say something about me but I've never had contact with parents that fit the stereotype that every single person outside of Hartland/Merton think every Arrowhead parent is like.  It might also have something to do with the fact, although we are not poor by nearly any definition, that I don't live on a lake and every vehicle we own is at least 11 years old with at least 150,000 miles on it.

I'm not sure what goes through the minds of parents who would bring a suit like this.  Maybe they think their daughter is good enough to get a soccer scholarship and the mean old Arrowhead administration is ripping from her mitts.  I'm not suggesting that is a legitimate reason for the lawsuit, I'm just trying to comprehend the situation.

I have no point to this post other than to say, we aren't all like what you think we are like.  Carry on.

MUENG, you're right, I shouldn't have made such a biased assumption.

That said, suing the school over a four game suspension is white (or at least wealth) privilege, and I stand by that.

Students at my school got busted last fall for a drinking party (they got caught because students were talking about how a girl blacked out in front of a teacher who was concerned about the girl's safety...not narcs).  The group of students involved were nearly all white, middle-class, tuition-paying honors students.  I think they got one day suspensions from school and a few got sports suspensions.  They acted like it was the end of the world.  Kids were crying in the hallways, parents came in to complain, students worried about not getting in to college.  It was a huge drama-fest.

When your biggest concern in life is a one-time drinking party suspension (where you got your friend so drunk they blacked out...), while there are other kids dealing with dads in jail, homelessness, domestic abuse, parenting their siblings, or living with a dying grandmother (all issues I see in my current students), that is white/wealth privilege. 

There's only one privilege that goes beyond white/wealth privilege in schools, and that's "really really good at sports" privilege.  We have a student with Div 1. scholarship offers who basically forced an ex-girlfriend to transfer out, got caught sexting pics to dozens of students, and had weed in his locker that has amazingly not been kicked out.  But hey, those football games don't win themselves.

[Chili]

does the name mark chmura ring any bells?  hartland arrowhead post prom party

Catholic Memorial not Arrowhead.

[rocket surgeon]

You’re surprised that no one got your vague reference to an incident from nearly 20 years ago?

nope-glad i could help though

[rocket surgeon]

Catholic Memorial not Arrowhead.

sorry, you are correct the incident happened out in hartland.  the girl at least was from memorial-my oldest son's class as a matter of fact