Teens Watched As Students Had Sex In School

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Two Lincoln teenagers have been ticketed for having sex in a high school hallway during the lunch hour while at least a dozen students watched, according to Lincoln police.

School officials said the incident happened over the lunch hour Wednesday at Lincoln Southeast. A female 17-year-old and a male 19-year-old apparently snuck past a gate to get into a restricted hallway near the Prasch Activity Center. Lincoln police said at least a dozen students watched through the gate.

"I don't want the message to families (to be that) this is happening indiscriminately all over the halls," said Becky Wild, with Lincoln Public Schools.

Wild said she remembers only one other incident like this in the last 10 years. She said LPS takes it very seriously, and administrators are asking themselves some tough questions.

"Are there some areas in our schools that are not as visible to the adults that supervise? We need to figure out how we cover those. Do we need to be talking with students about appropriate behavior?" Wild said.

"It's inappropriate," said one student. "It is. First of all, they don't need to be doing that in front of other people."

Students told KETV NewsWatch 7 that they believe sex in the hallways is rare, but sexual activity in schools happens more than adults think.

"If a kid thinks they can do that and it's going to make them popular, that's the level people go to nowadays," said student Danielle Thompson.

"I honestly think it could happen, and it probably does happen at their schools. People just don't know about it," said student Tomika Hopkins-Sanders.

LPS said students involved in sexual activity at school could face disciplinary action, counseling, suspension or even expulsion.

School officials will look at changes that can be made to prevent this kind of incident, but admitted that it's tough to keep an eye on every student at every moment of the day.

All Excellent Points.

I graduated from HS in 2004. While you all ponder my thoughts, keep this in mind...

"but sexual activity in schools happens more than adults think"

Ain't that the truth--this doesn't surprise me in the least. Within my class,I can think of numerous instances of "who did who" conversations in the halls, and only a couple of where they were actually stupid enough to even consider doing it in the school (though AFAIK, they didn't do it in actuality).

Not to mention that I knew several young women in my class (many near the academic and social pinnacles of said class) who actively dated college students, most of these couples met when both were in HS, and took them to Homecoming, Sadie's, Prom, etc. ad nauseam. So, the relationship doesn't surprise me either.

It's made worse by a 19 year old sneaking into school. I had a few 19 year olds in my HS class, most being held back at kindergarten due to the asinine cutoffs in my school district or a result of profound learning difficulties.

So, it's possible he's a student at the high school. But not likely.

More likely though, I think that here's a local college student--most likely from a local community, junior, or vocational college. He dates a girl (now 17) from his high school. It's possible they went out while he was in HS. Just that they were dumb enough to go that far.

What surprises me, though, is the fact that other students watched them do the dirty deed in a semi-public place. With others cheering them on, and presumably "preserving" the scene on their camera phones. Now THAT's just sick and twisted beyond any means.

Something like THAT deserves some sort of severe action--as the state of our society and the MSM shows, it's clearly not just these two dummies that need to get the hint...

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