Fantasy Sports? F that, Fantasy Sex League

[Trip]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-...ss-sex-fantasy

Why did I have to be such a dork in high school?

PIEDMONT -- Phones were ringing off the hook at school district offices Monday as word spread about the high school's fantasy sex league involving boys in varsity sports and girls who participate in sexual activity, then rack up "points" similar to fantasy sports leagues.

The media coverage exploded over the weekend with reports on television and online postings after Piedmont High principal Rich Kitchens issued an advisory to parents and news outlets that the league came to light following after a recent date rape assembly.

Kitchens acknowledged that the practice may have existed for several years and involved alcohol and/or pressure by older students to participate in the league through peer pressure.

"The advisory was a no-brainer," Kitchens said Monday. "It was important to share with parents what we knew. We tend to take a broad view of the well-being of our students. It's not just about reading and math."

Kitchens said that school officials' investigation and talks with students "convinced us we may not know everything, but we know enough, that kids were hurt.

"Good kids can make bad decisions. We all make mistakes. The key is what you do afterward."

He has no sense at this point how many students were involved in the "league."

At an assembly planned in early December An assembly is planned for early December, and students will be confidentially interviewed one by one afterward, Kitchens said, not only about this issue but others, such as cyberbullying or harassment.

Response from parents has been mostly positive, he said.

Schools Superintendent Connie Hubbard issued a statement Monday that said: "This is a matter of school and family working together to support our teens to make good choices and to treat each other with respect and dignity.

"We wanted to communicate to families to encourage a dialogue and to inform parents of what we as a school community are doing to proactively address activities that are detrimental to the culture we want for our students.

"We are confident that our students are capable and willing to step up the challenge to be active participants in strengthening what is fundamentally a safe, respectful school community."

A smattering of Facebook postings ranged from "Shameful!" to "Way to go Piedmont!" to "We used to play that game but never got caught. Back in my day we never tweeted."

One student wrote to an online site that the school was overreacting and had no business reporting "on something with no factual information."

Interim police Chief Scott Wyatt said Monday there have been no reports of sexual assaults in the wake of the scandal.

"There is something going on at the kid level, and adults found out about it," Wyatt said. "At the first inkling you need to take a nip-in-the-bud approach."

Wyatt said counseling centers such as the school's Wellness Center can help students sort things out in a confidential setting.

[CasterTroy]

Originally Posted by Trip

"We used to play that game but never got caught. Back in my day we never tweeted."

This is true for about everything that was fun back in the day. We kept quiet. We pounded the hot blonde student math teacher in the gym teachers office while the gym teachers were out on the track, and the health teacher pounded the cheerleaders. We ALL kept out mouths shut! Then, 8 years after we graduated the health teacher decided he'd start videotaping his encounters with the cheerleaders

Douglas B. Shields
Douglas B. Shields, a coach and teacher at East Forsyth High School, was suspended in November 1998 along with five other teachers for immoral behavior and drinking beer in a school locker room. The immoral behavior included a videotape that showed a teacher having sex with a student.

Shields was fired the next month.

In 2001, Shields, then 38, pleaded guilty to one count of disseminating obscene materials and one count of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. The charges stemmed from the videotape, made in 1994 or 1995, that included a scene of him having sex with a 17-year-old student dressed in an East Forsyth High cheerleader’s uniform. The videotape was made without the student’s knowledge by a hidden video camera in Shields’ bedroom.

Shields was sentenced to 90 days in jail. At the time, it wasn’t illegal for a teacher to have sex with a student, if the student was older than 16. The case prompted state legislators to create such a law.

The case also raised questions about a 15-year-old girl who was a remedial student in Shields’ class in 1995. Prosecutors said that Shields had kissed her neck and touched her shoulders, thighs and breasts while other students were in the classroom.

In sentencing Shields, Judge Howard R. Greeson Jr. criticized the school system’s handling of the 15-year-old’s case, saying that officials had known for three years that Shields was harassing the girl and didn’t take any action to stop it.

“Why did it take so long for y’all to find out about it?” Greeson asked prosecutors. “The school system betrayed that girl.”

Doug Punger, then the school system’s attorney, testified that a principal, a guidance counselor and a school resource officer had investigated and didn’t find any evidence of harassment, and the student denied that any incidents had taken place.