More on those dirty, dirty teenagers
Mar. 3rd, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleIt seems that the incident at Milton Academy, the fallout from which has been bugging me, was only one in a series of fellations of older boys by a 15 year old girl. My ambivalence grows, rather than lessens, as facts emerge.
The school expelled the five hockey players last month and put the 15-year-old boy and the girl on leave. School officials said at the time that the episode in the locker room was an isolated event. They said that the 5-1 male-to-female ratio in the locker room episode represented coercion of the girl, whether implicit or explicit.
The new letter does not mention coercion and describes what occurred as an ''unfortunate pattern of behavior by a small group of students."
School officials reached last night said the school has not changed its view of the situation's coercive nature, adding that the girl was too young to consent to sex. ''The decision to expel the boys absolutely stands," academy spokeswoman Cathleen Everett said. ''We made the right decision in the first instance, and we stand behind it."
I'm still ready to believe that the school was right to call it 'coercion' (though what they mean is 'rape', but I suppose that might hurt their admissions numbers), but their changing story does not fill me with confidence.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/03/milton_academy_cites_more_sex_cases?pg=full
The school expelled the five hockey players last month and put the 15-year-old boy and the girl on leave. School officials said at the time that the episode in the locker room was an isolated event. They said that the 5-1 male-to-female ratio in the locker room episode represented coercion of the girl, whether implicit or explicit.
The new letter does not mention coercion and describes what occurred as an ''unfortunate pattern of behavior by a small group of students."
School officials reached last night said the school has not changed its view of the situation's coercive nature, adding that the girl was too young to consent to sex. ''The decision to expel the boys absolutely stands," academy spokeswoman Cathleen Everett said. ''We made the right decision in the first instance, and we stand behind it."
I'm still ready to believe that the school was right to call it 'coercion' (though what they mean is 'rape', but I suppose that might hurt their admissions numbers), but their changing story does not fill me with confidence.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/03/milton_academy_cites_more_sex_cases?pg=full
