Hazing In High School Essay

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Some organizations require very intense initiations in order to join. These “initiations” are defined as hazing. There is more than one category for hazing and is a very serious and dangerous problem in high schools, and even in the military.
Hazing is defined as any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person’s willingness to participate, according to the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention (NCHR). Subtle, harassment, and violent practices. Subtle hazing has older members of the group have younger members stay silent, perform non-desirable duties, address members with certain terms for respect, answer to degrading names, in …show more content…
This situation can quickly turn into violent crimes when the older group gangs up on the initiates (younger group), who have no clue what is being planned or what to expect from the older groups. In 2003 several cases of brutal hazings involving a high school football team and other senior and junior girls were reported. “The football incident took place at a training camp over the summer. At camp, several players were allegedly sexually abused with pine cones, golf balls, and broomsticks. Three players were charged in the incident and appeared before a judge, who was to decide if they should stand trial as juveniles or adults. The judge ordered the decision sealed. The incident involving the teenage school girls occurred in what was supposed to be a ‘powder puff’ football game at a local park. Instead the younger girls were allegedly beaten, kicked, shoved, and pelted with a variety of objects and liquids, including garbage, mud, paint, animal intestines , feces, and urine. Five girls were taken to the hospital as a result. Fifteen students, who were charged with misdemeanors, were identified through witnesses and a videotape that someone made of the melee. Thirty-two were suspended from school. Although the girls were underage, alcohol was present. Police considered charging some of the girls’ parents for providing the alcohol
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