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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is about a hate filled rant written by a senior boy at Sidwell in which his female classmates were described  as whores, were described in detail giving blow jobs in the parking garage, on and on. When this little darling wasn't aloud to read this"poem" in the Quaker Meeting as is the tradition before Winter break he printed it in hard copy so that the entire school could read about these girls he had targeted. Angry at being rebuffed, he organized his friends to throw things at the Head of School, the US School Principal, teachers, etc....[/quote]
Can anyone with actual [u]first-hand[/u] knowledge confirm or refute this description?  I've got no connection to this high school, so I have no idea.

I've read the thread from the beginning, and it's starting to sound like a game of "telephone" where the tale grows in the telling.  OP's telling sounded ugly, but now you seem to be portraying it in even more negative terms.  Now it's a "rant" with "in detail" descriptions of sex acts that "target" girls.  And the writer is so angry that he's supposedly organized some sort of physical assault on the entire administration.  That seems to be quite an expansion from OP's description, and I suspect an exaggeration.  And the only semi-confirmation I've seen (on page 1 of this thread) seems to suggest that while the person who wrote the poem was out-of-line, the school admin blocked the poem from being read, and likely will discipline the student.

If the poem is half as nasty as is being described here, the student who distributed it certainly deserves to be disciplined.  So I wouldn't apologize for him (or her?).  But let's keep this in perspective -- I've seem [u]plenty[/u] of posts on DCUM where all us sensitive and concerned parents of school children are calling each other names far worse than "whore," and I suspect any teenager you know has called people far worse names.  And the sex acts people describe on DCUM regularly cause me to lower my computer screen for fear that someone might see me read them.  It seems quite hypocritical for people here to play the morals card now.

To repeat, I'm not excusing the behavior.  If it happened at school, then the school should react; and if it were my child, there would be some pretty severe discipline at home.  But I'm failing to see how this is a "stop the presses!" story.[/quote]

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