Blog: Avoiding the Legal Haze of Hazing

As high schools and colleges around the country open their doors to a new crop of student-athletes, it is worth keeping in mind the recent decision in Mathis v. Wayne County Board of Education [2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20282]. In Mathis, the mothers of two 7th-grade boys sued Waynesboro (Tenn.) Middle School over a series of incidents of sexual misconduct by members of the boys' basketball team and coach David Sisk's deliberate indifference in stopping it.

The two boys argued that Sisk was almost never in the locker room after practice, which turned the locker room into "chaos" and a "wild, insane, crazy" environment in which certain 8th-grade players frequently pulled "pranks" on 7th-grade players. One common prank involved various 8th-graders gathering around a 7th-grader and humping and gyrating against him.

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