I am posting this because Lake Oswego High School
is where my 3 girls graduated, and I am truly scorched.
Lake Oswego is the highest income, bedroom of the PDX area.
I'm hoping the Principal, the School Board, and
especially the Coach
get a public shellacking over it all.
OregonLive.com
Nicole Dungca, The Oregonian
3/7/12
Racist tweets lead to reprimands for Lake Oswego football players; 3 students suspended
Quote:
A cluster of messages from anonymous Twitter accounts,
one of which targeted an African-American student with racist postings,
have led to the suspension of three Lake Oswego High School students,
the reprimand of several football teammates and a Lake Oswego Police Department investigation.
Lake Oswego High School Principal Bruce Plato confirmed three students
were suspended last week related to the Twitter incidents,
but declined to say whether they will have expulsion hearings.
He also said he did not know who was responsible for the racist postings.
Marqueese Royster, a former Lake Oswego High School football player
who transferred to Lakeridge High School, and his mother, AnnaLisa Royster,
filed a police report on Feb. 24.
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Lake Oswego football coach Steve Coury said the students who received
the most severe discipline were suspended not for the content of the tweets
but for setting up an imposter twitter account for the vice principal and
tweeting "kind of crude things about Dave."
<snip>
Coury called the incident "a bunch of kids being stupid and communicating in a world for everybody to see."
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Coach Coury doesn't get it that the issue is not kids being "stupid",
and it's not about putting the crap out there for "everybody to see".
Lake Oswego is already known for it's lily white population, and has even called Lake NoN*****'s.
Coach Steve Coury needs some back-side "education and training"
as to what "leadership" and "sportsmanship" really mean,
and maybe several weeks of private, in-home contemplation without pay.
Maybe some letters to the Lake Oswego School Board from all over Dweller-land would have an effect...