The Minnesota School Tried to Keep It Quiet...

citing "privacy laws", but these students, with parents' and guardians' permissions, went to the media about why the high-school football season was cancelled. 

 "I think the dude that did it definitely should get punished for what he did."

Now a local news story is featured on the Drudge Report.  Good job, kids.  Only exposure and transparency are going to bring small-town scandals to light in this day and age...

(Where there is local media, it's often now only a weekly, and sometimes small-town publishers are more inclined to bury news like this, rather than to report honestly the facts being gossiped about throughout the town.  Twenty years ago, a New Richmond, Wisc. hockey player was allegedly sodomized -- the distinction turned on whether the boy was penetrated -- with a candy-cane by teammates.  The primary instigator, the son of schoolteacher and local businessman, faced court charges, but the team as a whole played on, without the victim -- a backup goaltender, allegedly. Not much local news coverage -- juveniles, so no names given, just talk about town... 

I remember the victim's uncle wrote a letter to the editor at the time in the local weekly, asking why his nephew was no longer on the team, while those who stood by and either participated or did nothing to stop the assault were still allowed to play hockey... Asking the community where they were, why they were not supporting his nephew, as opposed to the team as a whole. It was one of the saddest letters to the editor I have ever read.  

Progress then, on this level at least. Kids know right from wrong, and in the places where they don't encourage perpetual boyhood, more often right wins than wrong.  Despite the authorities who would keep everything hush-hush...  This I believe.)