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NoMoLerking t1_iwqadab wrote
“Just boys being boys.”
d0nkeyBOB t1_iwqsnsp wrote
Love living in Haverhill! Teacher strikes, high school hazing and only xfinity internet. Fun place.
Rsd865 t1_ix8f5ew wrote
Xfinity is awesome. Try metrocast, optimum, or another shitty cable company to change your mind.
Mermaid_La_Reine t1_iwquu7p wrote
...and more taxes will make it better-er. /s 🤦♀️. Dear Lord help us.
Downvoted for taxes?
d0nkeyBOB t1_iwr4fhm wrote
glad I own my house here...er...🤦🏼♂️ also, i thought downtown would attract more businesses but this doesn't help
d0nkeyBOB t1_iwr4ng1 wrote
i'm all for taxes if they go to the right place, but we'll have to see what this dos for small business
Mermaid_La_Reine t1_iwrz4i1 wrote
They do not need more taxpayer money, they need to better use the funds they are given. Haverhill School Superintendent made over $233k last year, and is budgeted for over $230k this coming year.
Do you realize Boston Mayor Michelle Wu makes $230k/year??
“For the city’s 782 full-time or equivalent teachers, the current average annual salary is $73,613 according to the School Department.” -The Eagle-Tribune
(Average salary for 180-days of work.)
Teachers got a raise two years ago, but because of Democrat leaders, we are in a Recession... so their raise was out-distanced by Inflation. (Huh? Who could have seen that coming...) So they pitched a fit for another raise, and homeowners will be the only one to pay the bill.
Meanwhile, the kids are failing Basic State levels and problematic. Tragic.
JaesopPop t1_iws3ig9 wrote
Hard to imagine someone complaining that teachers are paid too much but, here we are.
Mermaid_La_Reine t1_iwtrm2e wrote
It’s what taxpayer/parents get for all of their tax dollars... nothing. Nothing is ‘better’.
We pay a fortune in taxes for our schools, and the kids are no better by any metric, nor is there any safety. Where were the teachers/coaches/staff to monitor the locker room? (I remember our gym teacher would come in every 3-5 mins or so, give a time check ‘10-more minutes!’ Leave.)
Why are students permitted to have phones (cameras) in a locker room while others are changing? Nobody thinks that’s a problem—18yo with cameras with minors changing clothes? Smart people think ahead of the curve to prevent an ‘appearance of evil’, instead of cleaning up messes and saying ‘boys will be boys’.
If these kids think this was ‘fun’ to sit on someone’s face and twerk, and others cheer or nobody helps— they are damaged. That is not normal, nor should it be normalized. End the season. These kids are the fruit of Haverhills’ labour, and no amount of money can fix a mental instability.
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JaesopPop t1_iwu8081 wrote
> It’s what taxpayer/parents get for all of tax dollars... nothing. Nothing is ‘better’.
>We pay a fortune in taxes for our schools, and the kids are no better by any metric, nor is there any safety. Where were the teachers/coaches/staff to monitor the locker room? (I remember our gym teacher would come in every 3-5 mins or so, give a time check ‘10-more minutes!’ Leave.)
>Why are students permitted to have phones (cameras) in a locker room while others are changing? Nobody thinks that’s a problem—18yo with cameras with minors changing clothes? Smart people think ahead of the curve to prevent an ‘appearance of evil’, instead of cleaning up messes and saying ‘boys will be boys’.
>If these kids think this was ‘fun’ to sit on someone’s face and twerk, and others cheer or nobody helps— they are damaged. That is not normal, nor should it be normalized. End the season. These kids are the fruit of Haverhills’ labour, and no amount of money can fix a mental instability.
It’s like you lost track of what you were responding to a sentence and a half in. Unless your argument is that teachers are paid too much because of one specific incident?
Even then, I’d be interested in your thoughts on how you’d routinely temporarily confiscate kids phones every gym class. Also, if you think this would be a decision made by teachers.
Further, which teacher should have been checking on these students? The football teacher? You even mention the coach - you know this is a football practice, not a class, why would a teacher be there?
bostondotcom OP t1_iwq5kz9 wrote
From reporter Ross Cristantiello:
Haverhill Public Schools abruptly canceled the rest of its football season Wednesday after a video reportedly showing hazing was made known to school officials.
In an online post, the district announced the cancellation of all future practices and forfeiture of all future games.
“Haverhill Public Schools is currently investigating misconduct involving some members of the high school football team. The investigation is ongoing and significant material was uncovered today which impacts the direction of the investigation and the entire school community,” the district said in a statement.
The decision to stop the football season was due to the “seriousness of the misconduct."
Shufflebuzz t1_iws2ym9 wrote
Don't put the URL in the Title field, please.
hummingbirds_R_tasty t1_iwq72aa wrote
this has a little more info to it
XaulXan t1_iwqbbtu wrote
Great Title
thegoodelady t1_iwsf1yq wrote
This should exclude any participants from high school and college sports. Let that sink into the little shits bully brain.
ripplecarry t1_iwsyb83 wrote
Fights, strikes, hazing only the best for our kids.
Marzane13 t1_iwu5fvv wrote
Why are they calling this hazing? It's sexual assault of a minor.
Nicksucksathiking t1_iwur1ox wrote
Oh so when teenage boys do this shit its “hazing” lets stop this and call it what it is. This was a filmed sexual assault and these kids need to see jail( they wont)
ky1e t1_iwvhys4 wrote
hello - seems you put URL in the title field. just heads up for next time
Coercedbycake t1_iwqsjhg wrote
That is all that happens? Cancelling a game?
justhatchedtoday t1_iwqt0au wrote
All of the games for the rest of the season.
TomBirkenstock t1_iwr0wx4 wrote
It's sounds like a first step. Kicking those involved in the hazing off the team and canceling the seasons seem like a good start.
tomcat3121 t1_iws8sts wrote
Da is filing charges. A bunch of them were over 18.
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mattcal44 t1_iwqh7um wrote
Nerd
Matty_Cakez t1_iwqfg7v wrote
You have 4 comments so far and all of them are negative. Get off the internet you child and if you hate Massachusetts then leave it.
ins0mniac_ t1_iwqs5yu wrote
How someone can look at Hershel Walker and think “I want to risk my child having brain damage” is not a responsible parent.
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Mystical_Smores t1_iwr9d8a wrote
Everyone else on the team stood around and watched, so yes you punish the entire team and hope they understand that this type of culture is not acceptable. It's the same as when people on Reddit say that good cops protecting bad cops are just as bad. Someone on the team should have stepped up and stopped it.
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MoreGuitarPlease t1_iwsbha5 wrote
I’d even go so far as to eliminate football from the school for a year.
Unique-Public-8594 t1_iwq9vkz wrote
Quick facts:
Sexual assault of freshman in locker room.
Video evidence.
Students suspended.