HS Officials Work to Curb Unruly Student Behavior at Games

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School officials across southern Maine are working to quell taunting and unruly behavior by student fan sections at high school sporting events, behaviors that spiked when fans returned after pandemic restrictions were lifted.

"The increase of verbal attack, not cheering, but attack — whether that's singling kids out by name or number, or their hair cuts or color of their cleats — has increased," Freeport High School athletic director Craig Sickels told the Portland Press Herald. "It's definitely something that escalated post-COVID."

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