In Carson City, Nevada, 6 female students were arrested in connection with promoting to this Facebook invitation from two local middle schools. The students insisted that the postings on the website were just a joke, but school administrators did not tread lightly on the matter. The girls were later released to the custody of their parents and they were suspended for up to 5 days.
I think it's disheartening to hear these kinds of stories to make headline news because when I reflect on this particular story, I think of what was the motivation to want to even think and post this type of event online where the world would see it? It makes me wonder what kind of environment they live in, who their friends are, the types of relationships they have with adult figures in their lives, etc. How does this reflect them, their parents, their community in a positive manner? Overall, I think that so many miscellaneous news such as this makes more of the headlines than do the actual successes that are going on in the schools today. I am glad though to see administration getting this situation under control and see to it that no one got hurt in the midst of this "joke". In these sensitive times, students need to take these things more seriously because there have been actual crimes that occurred in the past.
No comments:
Post a Comment