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Originally posted by guthmund
After calming down, I realize that maybe my post was a little inflamatory.
Reporting the news is a very heady job I'm sure. Trying to mix 37 different stories into one article is sure to be a time consuming and difficult task.
However, I'm not concerned with how the media reports it's stories. I'm more upset that the school as taken the official position that "our hands are tied there simply isn't anything we can do."
This has nothing to do with how the media reported the story. This is more about the school's position that was reported in the media.
You write of how the news can bias someones opinion of the story. How does language like "...whether any criminal acts occured,"and "for possible discipline" affect someones' thinking.
For someone who hadn't seen the videotape it might influence them to think that this "powderpuff game" just got a little out of hand, you know girls will be girls. I mean, if the police aren't sure of "any criminal acts" how can I be sure? If the school is looking "for possible" disciplinary action then surely it must not be important.
Fact is, it is important. 
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I didn't see the video myself, anyone got caps of it? Anyhow, if I had, I might have got all fired up too. I can understand their wording though.
If it was not a school sanctioned activity off of school grounds then that's all they can do is investigate to see if there's some way that they can discipline them. Let me tell you what, if my kid was ever in the middle of that I'd lay the smack down on them like no other, however if the school board tried to jump in on it, I would fight them tooth and nail. I'm the parent, they are not, they do not have my permission to do my job off of their property and away from their sponsored activities.
As far as the police investigating for possible criminal acts, were the juniors there of their own free will? I mean were they forced into it, or was it a willing thing and it did get out of hand? The whole thing sounds fucked up to me, but a lot of people do fucked up things that I don't like but I wouldn't have them arrested for it (S&M, Scat, branding, etc etc.). If this is something that happens every year, maybe they willingly subject themselves to it, because they figure that next year they'll be able to dish it out. I don't know, but that would be why the police would have to investigate it I would imagine, figure out exactally who crossed lines and decide what and who can be charged for which particular crimes.