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Edit: Bus Assault Wasn’t Horseplay

For some people, what happened on a Glacier High School freshman football bus on Sept. 12 was just boys being boys. It was just a normal part of football rambunctiousness, they say. Football has always had its unique initiation rites and the bus events were no different than the horseplay players have been engaging in for years. We beg to differ with that assessment. When you allegedly have team leaders dragging teammates to the back of the bus, restraining them, punching them, threatening them and even violating them, it’s not merely hazing or bullying and it’s no longer the innocent exuberance of youth. It is, it would appear, a crime/Daily Inter Lake. More here.

Question: Should the judge have allowed the assailants to return to school with their victims, while this case is working through the legal system?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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