Board offered to pay thousands for private school if hazing suspects would leave their district

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The Wall (N.J.) Board of Education offered at least two students now facing criminal charges related to allegations of ongoing hazing in the football locker room thousands of dollars toward school tuition to leave the district, NJ Advance Media has learned.

In the midst of the scandal that has engulfed the Wall community, one of the district’s school board attorneys, Athina Cornell, made the offers to at least two suspects ... They said the district would pay the students a prorated amount of money toward private school tuition to attend a new school for the second half of the current school year and then $18,000 toward tuition for the 2022-2023 school year.

The revelation of the offer is the latest development in a scandal that has rocked the Jersey Shore community after NJ Advance Media reported on videos that depict the hazing happening last fall. It led to several juveniles being charged criminally. Coaches and school officials were put on administrative leave and the football team’s season was ended early.

School districts are legally required to pay for educational expenses of children in their district if they can’t meet their needs ... Neither student accepted the money, the sources said.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/01/board-offered-to-pay-thousands-for-private-school-if-hazing-suspects-would-leave-their-district.html

[brewens]

1. The hazing on my high school team was they dragged us through a mud hole.

Actually, we all got a run at it and dove/slid through it rather than be dragged. Nothing really abusive would have been allowed. That was in the 70's in Idaho.

[LiberalFighter]

2. There was no hazing at my school during my time 1969-1972

I was a team manager for football, wrestling, and track & field.

Didn't see it when I was in college either for the same sports.

This was in Wisconsin.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Basketball & Track Here

Went 3 years of HS before I left early for college.
Guard on b-ball team, high & long jump in track.
I saw ZERO hazing of any kind in 3 years. And, the track team traveled as both varsity & JV everywhere, so those freshman-senior interactions existed. Still saw nothing.
How could you and I see nothing 50 years ago, but it's still occurring? Sounds like coaching & discipline has regressed.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Probably coaches that think they are special. Like Gym.

[Emile]

3. I was hazed in the Navy when I become a Bluenose for crossing the Arctic Circle.

A bucket of ice water on top my head, brrr.