The Chicago Tribune reports that the parents of a Maine West High School student have filed suit charging school officials and soccer coaches sanctioned the hazing of the teen that included physical and sexual assault.
Continue reading...The parents of two baseball players who were the victims of hazing rituals claim that their sons have been declared ineligible to play baseball at the students’ new school, says an Associated Press (AP) report in the Hattiesburg American.
Continue reading...A superior court judge has declined to strip suspensions from the school records of two freshmen disciplined in a hazing scandal involving Andover High School basketball players, says the Eagle-Tribune.
Continue reading...According to the Sun Herald, the parents of a former Picayune Memorial High School baseball player have filed suit alleging members of the team participated in a hazing ritual that left their son hospitalized after he was held from behind and punched in the chest.
Continue reading...The Boston Globe reports that a state auditor’s office review concluded that the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MDESE) failed to monitor school districts’ compliance with the state’s antihazing laws, resulting in a checkered enforcement system across the state. The review focused on the state’s failure to monitor mandated reporting that has left it with no way to measure what works.
Continue reading...The Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, has upheld a family court’s judgment that a high school student was a juvenile delinquent based his violation of the state’s criminal hazing statute. It concluded that a gang constituted an organization within the meaning of the statute and, thus, by conducting an initiation into that gang, which included a physical assault on the prospective member, he had violated the statute.
Continue reading...A number of education and athletic associations have expressed support for Needham High School officials’ decision to suspend members of the school’s girls’ soccer team for allegedly hazing younger teammates, says the Boston Globe. The suspended students are accused of blindfolding freshmen on the team, leading them around on dog leashes, and smashing pies in their faces, according to a school official.
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