School suspends male students for tradition of smoking a cigar after graduation. Maybe if they cross dressed or denounced their white privilege life and masculinity they could play in the final game of their careers. God forbid we have teenagers that want to be men and uphold tradition. I’m so sick of pussy knee jerk liberals and the friggin stupid policies.


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That makes two of us!!

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Moreover, the MIAA considers athletes who have graduated, but are still performing in spring tournament games, to be under its purview.

I wonder if this would be overturned by a court.

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“A student shall not, regardless of the quantity, use, consume, possess, buy/sell, or give away any beverage containing alcohol; any tobacco product (including e-cigarettes, VAPE pens and all similar devices); marijuana (including synthetic); steroids; or any controlled substance,”

Seems to me that, legally, they are no longer students. It would be no different than that chic that brought her AR-10 onto campus after graduation...

How can Graduates be suspended? And am I in danger of suspension from Humble High School? I have probably violated numerous rules of the student code over the past 43 years.

Dontcha miss the good ole days?
We were legal for alcohol at 18, back then we kept our guns in our locker too.
After graduation we bought a keg and headed out to Wildcat Den to celebrate.
{sigh} Those SJW body punches are taking their toll.Too bad.

As a H.S. and Collegiate level athletics coach I look at this a little differently than some of you.

First of all, these are not just students that graduated, smoked a cigar after graduation and got suspended from a school they no longer attend. These are student athletes that who qualified with their teams for the state tournament, and are allowed by state rules to participate after graduation, and therefore still must comply with all rules through the end of that tournament run.

The key statement is here:
“All student athletes sign a handbook policy that states they cannot use tobacco products at school functions, in addition to the (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association) policy,” said DeRuosi. The students were reminded (by Hashem) that school policies would apply.”

All HS student athletes nation wide sign a handbook or policy clearly stating all rules. Everything is clearly spelled out, there are no hidden rules or surprises.

These Student Athletes not only violated a rule, broke the law, on school property, but posted a photo of it online where it was clearly seen by many people, including competitors and state officials. Action had to be taken to prevent the entire team from potentially forfeiting an upcoming game to due to the actions of a few.

I noticed that there was mention that it was let slide before. That's fine, good for those kids. But rules are rules. I'm going to guess that some other school got hammered for this recently and no one is taking chances.

Having been on the other side of this, when an entire team was suspended for the remainder of the season, along with the coaching staff due to a photo published by 4 players on a road trip, it is VERY serious.

Traditions are great, I'm all for traditions, but they better be legal and within the rules.

Modern day Health and safety bullshit.

In the late '50's, some of us drank beer after high school graduation and weeks later went into the Army and later to Vietnam.

"Smoking cigars is unhealthy"
"So's bitching about it around me"

They signed the policy. They're high school students or just graduated. If they're dumb enough to get caught doing something they shouldn't be doing, they should reap the consequences.

A relatively recent rule, never enforced, and a long-standing tradition observed with impunity; all of a sudden the kids are selectively suspended?

That's the sign of good leadership skills: keep them guessing, soon they will stop doing anything, and you have total, life-long control. Or maybe the beginning of a new revolution, this time against domestic tyrants. Got that, Massachusetts?

Stewing over this all day if these were a bunch of graduates, who like Michael Brown, would look like Barry's son, smoking a blunt, nothing not a fucking thing would've come of it rules or no rules. Sorry but white suburban high school graduates need to be taught a lesson and made an example. Really a state where smoking weed is fine now, but punishment for a tradition by kids who are productive and are becoming men is O.k., Fuck you SJW's and the rest of the snowflake pussy world.

Heck, when I was in high school, there was a little area on the school lawn (interestingly enough, right outside of the principal's office) that was called "Marlboro country". It's where the kids who smoked went to, well, smoke.

Nowadays they are suspending them after they graduate ( ) for having a few celebratory puffs on a cigar while not on school grounds?

Wow.

Yeah....my give-a-shit meter for school "policy" and "rules" is just about pegged for petty shit.

This is petty shit.