Seniors at Millburn High School in New Jersey have circulated a “slut list” on which they scribble dozens of names of “pretty and popular” incoming freshman with “crass descriptions”. What do you think should happen to those senior?
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This is a form of bullying and it should be handled as such with what ever your school rules are in this situation.
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If I were the parents of the girls on that list, I would have the seniors charged with slander and defamation of character. Then I would also file a civil suit against the seniors and donate any money received to the local women's shelter. They need to be held accountable for their actions. If the penalties were a little more severe for people that bully others like this, maybe it would curb it a bit.
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I'm not sure, perhaps a look at this so called "list" is in order.
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I'm not sure what should happen on an official, administrative level. I suppose that treating it as bullying is about the best that can be done. What's tragic about this is that it exposes a new depth of the degradation of our society in this regard. "Back in the day" the perpetrators would have been called in to the principal's office, and a letter would have gone out to the parents. In the case of middle-class kids, this would have handled it pretty effectively, because the parents WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE TO SEE THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. There was an element of shame involved, and the parents would have communicated to the kids that the family was ashamed of this action, and that would have been effective. Nowadays, other than the parents of the girls whose names appear on the list, show me any half-dozen parents who would be ashamed to find that their kids had made up the list. They'd probably find reasons to justify and defend it. It's quite true that one can trace the decline of a society by the number of laws that are required ... because ordinary rules of etiquette no longer serve. This is evidence of that.
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Actually many incoming freshmen would want to be on that list because it makes them "popular".
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