Posted on 11/08/2001 6:27:45 AM PST by Fintan
FORT WORTH, Texas - Girl volleyball players at a Fort Worth middle school were asked by their coaches to play a game of "strip serve" volleyball, which school administrators criticized as inappropriate after some parents complained. During the drill, held Sept. 21 at the Gene Pike Middle School gym, two girls took their shirts off and one girl may have taken off her shorts, district officials said. Three female coaches supervised the 22 eighth-graders while they played the game, which required that team members take off shoes, socks, kneepads or hair accessories if a player missed a serve. After a few girls took it upon themselves to undress further, the drill was immediately stopped, administrators said. The drill should have never been conducted, Northwest Independent School District Superintendent Keith Sockwell said on Monday. "I thought it was the most stupid thing I ever heard. You just don't do things like that," he said. An investigation began after several parents complained about the activity. Statements were taken from the players and the coaches, officials said. The girls' written statements indicated that, for the most part, they were not upset about the game, Pike Principal Kyle Copp said. The coaches were "remorseful," he said. The three coaches, whom the district declined to name, are still employed, Deputy Superintendent Ron Hibbs said. Some parents said that even though the coaches apologized to the players, they should have been punished. "It's an appalling story," said the mother of a Pike volleyball player, who asked that her name not be used. "They got no reprimand for this that the kids could see. Nobody sees that there's consequences to bad choices." Said another: "I think it was an error in judgment, and that's all it was - plain and simple." |
I'm well aware of that. Our neighbors have kids about that age. Some of their female friends (8th&9th graders) are jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
It sure wasn't like that when I was a kid....
Yeah. Dang it.
BTW, I want to reiterate that I made a specific reference to "talking." I don't want to give the misimpression that I have had to extract myself from situations more...(ahem)...advanced than that.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I authored a thread about it. "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" was about the shocking results of an investigation of the high rate of syphilis among teens in an upper-class town on the outskirts of Atlanta. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of the special:
By the time the investigation concluded, seasoned public health investigators trained not to be judgmental would be startled by what they found. There were 14-year-olds who had had up to 50 sex partners, sixth-graders competing for the sexual attention of high school students, girls in sexual scenes with three boys at once. In one case, according to the film, a girl at a party with 30 to 40 teens volunteered to have sex with all the boys there -- and did. "My heart dropped," Cooper said. "I felt nauseated. I wanted to cry."
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