The Class Talk

In class the other day we discussed an issue about a 15 year old girl who told her parents she went to a party, got so drunk that she couldn't remember anything from the night before and woke up seeing nude pictures of her on the Internet. Two football players were convicted of sexual assault yet nothing has been decided about whether or not the football players actually did. Everyone at the party was drinking yet nothing came out in the press about a case about under-age drinking. In the article I read I was surprised that nothing happened to the players that were at the party and were drinking. One of the coaches were in charge of disciplining the players because of the drinking and going to the party. The coach decided not to punish the players because he asked the students if they believed they did anything wrong and they said no so he decided not to punish the players. I was shocked that the coach decided not to punish or at least bench the players from a game. In our school, if a person does something even slightly contreversial while on a team or in a club, they get banned from it for most of their season. One example of this in our school is the girls swim team. During Homecoming the classes all dress up in their class colors yet this year the deans decided it would be a great idea to make everyone just red and grey. The seniors rebelled agianst this idea and wore all black but the girls swim coach said that if he saw anyone wearing black that day they would be banned from one of the biggest meets of the year against our school's biggest rival. It was not against the school rules or policies if someone wore black on the school colors day but the swim coach saw it as going against what the school was trying to promote. Something as little as wearing black on a day where everyone else is wearing red and grey would result in getting benched from a game yet in the article we read, going to a party, getting drunk, and showing up in pictures at a party where a girl was taken pictures of is nude was okay in the coaches decision. I believe that sports players are held up to a higher standard then the average person and I believe this is a good thing. If you want to be apart of something bigger than yourself then you should be living up to higher standards. I also believe that everyone should be held to higher standards because that would effect communities in a posotive way and eventually the world. If everyone lived to a higher standard and tried to be respectful of others and not do irresponsible things such as going out and taking nude pictures of someone while everyone is drunk, the world would be able to be much more effective and many horrible moments would dissappear such as the one about the 15 year old girl. Here is a little video of people raising the social bar and the world becoming a better place and how it could be better, enjoy :)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e09-raising-the-bar