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Lisbon parents criticize hazing investigation into football team
Dangerous activities had become normalized in “the culture of hazing” within the Lisbon high school football team, a report said. Parents say this is not the truth.
LISBON, Maine Many parents of students on the Lisbon High School football team say their children thrive on the field. But what happens behind closed doors can tell a very different story.
Recent allegations show that freshman and freshman players were often attacked, such as being beaten with leather straps, thrown into trash cans and locked in a cage.
Those incidents became normalized in what lawyers at the Drummond Woodsum law firm has been called 'a culture of hazing'. Earlier this month, school administrators hired the company to conduct an independent investigation into the football team.
Before that investigation was over, Chief Inspector Richard Green decided to suspend the team's activities. Not only did that mean an early end to the season, but it also automatically led to a two-year ban from the Maine Principal's Association.
It was a decision that left parents and children in the school community devastated. “These kids don't even understand why they are in trouble,” says a mother of two soccer players.
Like many of the parents NEWS CENTER Maine spoke to, she chose to remain anonymous to protect her children.
She said this all started because of an incident that took place outside the school grounds, but because footballers were involved, they have now become scapegoats.
When her son was interviewed by law firm investigators, she said the questions focused on locker room activities. However, she said many of her son's answers were taken out of context. For example, when he talked about the area that lawyers called “the cage.”
“My son said, 'Yes, I was behind that door once.' The lawyer was shocked and said, “Oh my God, how did you get out?” I feel like he turned my son into a victim.”
She said her son told her that “the cage” was not a real cage, but rather a small room in the locker room that was locked. Like many of the activities mentioned in the report, her son found its use light-hearted and consensual.
The report identified this attitude as one of the biggest problems.
Advocates say adopting the belief that these damaging incidents can be considered “horseplay” is dangerous and leads to victims remaining silent.
Another anonymous parent who spoke to NEWS CENTER Maine said it's certainly concerning that bad things can happen within the team, but he believes without it the kids will only have more problems.
He said football is not only an outlet in his household, but also the way he keeps his children in line.
These thoughts are echoed by other parents, who believe that more supervision should have been the immediate solution and that team suspension should have been the last resort.
“Do you think it's better to cancel sports and let these kids hibernate in their rooms than to go out and be on the field and be active? What do you think is better for their mental health?”
Superintendent Richard Green said he stands by his choices. When the allegations were first made, Green said he did not consider options other than suspending the team because his first priority was protecting students from harm.
“We didn't really know what scope we were dealing with, so no, it wasn't really a consideration,” Green said.
That said, Green doesn't want the suspension to last longer than this season. He said he doesn't believe they deserve a two-year ban and that the district plans to appeal to the Maine Principal's Association.
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