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6-12: Ridiculous MA School District Bans Lacrosse Players - Over Fake Cigars! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: You know, usually the stories I picked to cherry pick
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about Delvin to further in the pot
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  Speaker 1: are usually national stories that you've already heard of or
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  Speaker 1: at least somewhat familiar with. Right, the one we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get into today, you probably haven't heard about yet yet.
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  Speaker 1: But it's so unbelievably ridiculous. You're going to everybody's picking
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  Speaker 1: up barstool OutKick all the major media sources for this one.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the picturesque little town of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful town, seacoast town that's right in the ocean north
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  Speaker 1: shore of Boston, that area, right, And you're gonna think
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  Speaker 1: this is a fake story when I just give you
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  Speaker 1: the general gist of this in the headline, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was fake when I first saw it too,
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  Speaker 1: I really did. This is what it is. High school students,
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  Speaker 1: lacrosse players from Ipswich High School were banned from their
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  Speaker 1: semi final lacrosse game right for the high crime of
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  Speaker 1: posing for a graduation celebration picture with cigars. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: not smoking them. No, no, no, Apparently some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: tradition that's in this town. They go bound by the
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  Speaker 1: coast and then they're caps and gowns and they hold
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  Speaker 1: a cigar right not lit Nope, And this is what
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  Speaker 1: makes it even more ridiculous. They weren't even real cigars. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why is this soar? Why is this, you know, catching
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  Speaker 1: fire throughout the entire country, even though it's a very
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  Speaker 1: very localized New England kind of story, because I would
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  Speaker 1: bet you you know somebody in your local school district,
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  Speaker 1: not teachers. I'm not saying teacher. Teachers are amazing people.
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  Speaker 1: By and large, they're incredible. I couldn't do that job.
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  Speaker 1: But there's just something about academia. There's something about superintendent's principles.
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  Speaker 1: If they've never really lived in the real world, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't bring that real world experience into their job,
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  Speaker 1: something happens where they just completely lose all common sense.
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  Speaker 1: In every school district in the country, there's somebody like
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  Speaker 1: this principle and superintendent like an ipswich mass all of them.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to fight this stuff anyway, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into it. It's unreal, all right, Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it right now. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those deals where we have to because this is
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  Speaker 1: all you know. Obviously New England media sources, Manchester, New Hampshire, Boston, Providence,
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  Speaker 1: they all started this. Now it's spreading. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: to take it in pieces to tell the story again.
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  Speaker 1: In general, the general gist is Massachusetts Ipswich, Massachusetts lacrosse
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  Speaker 1: players banned from the semi final tournament versus call Asset.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some great Boston accents in this story, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, because of a graduation picture and what they
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  Speaker 1: were holding turns out to be fake cigars. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take it in pieces here to give you the gist
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  Speaker 1: of the story. Here's Channel five in Boston WCVB telling it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna take it in pieces.
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  Speaker 2: Today Christian Jennacoccus is at work not play the Ipswich seniors.
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  Speaker 2: A member of the boys lacrosse team squad that's went
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  Speaker 2: away from a state title game the following graduation. This
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  Speaker 2: photo of them with cigars is now keeping team from playing.
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  Speaker 1: Big crime and the punishment are not even close to
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  Speaker 1: each other. And there is just there's a judge and
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  Speaker 1: a jury and it's evil. Right now.
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  Speaker 2: After graduation, parents say numerous students were spotted smoking cigars.
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  Speaker 2: Christian his teammates know the rules for athletes, the policies
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  Speaker 2: stating students may not use, consume, possess, buy, sell, or
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  Speaker 2: give away alcohol, tobacco products or controlled substances.
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  Speaker 1: First part of this whole thing is the dad there, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's key part of the story because all the parents
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  Speaker 1: are involved, as they should be. You can't let this
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing stand. So they stated the Massachusetts Athletic
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  Speaker 1: rules there where you can't buy, sell, you know, distribute
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is tobacco products. Again, let's keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: here in this story they weren't doing any of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's tradition, I guess in this town, graduation, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: lacrosse football, maybe it's all kids whatever, cap and gown,
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  Speaker 1: go buy in front of the beach and take a picture.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do any of that. They haven't done anything
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  Speaker 1: wrong yet.
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  Speaker 2: Cludes non alcoholic beer. His father, John's as the students
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  Speaker 2: asked him for help to find a way to participate
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  Speaker 2: in the tradition without violating these rules. I can't get
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  Speaker 2: your real ones, but I've just started rolling cigars.
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  Speaker 1: I can try to make some fake ones if you
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  Speaker 1: guys just want to go down and we.
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  Speaker 2: Can hang out.
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  Speaker 1: He says.
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  Speaker 2: He contacted a local cigar shop, gathered the supplies, and
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  Speaker 2: rolled the makeshift cigars. Still with Painter's tape. They snapped
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  Speaker 2: this photo during a post grab moment with the cigars,
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  Speaker 2: John saying the school saw the photo and took action,
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  Speaker 2: stopping them from playing in their semi final game against Cohasset.
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  Speaker 2: He quickly went to the school principal.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot too unpack here. First of all, this
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  Speaker 1: is where you get to the part this wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: told in the first news reports of the story. They
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  Speaker 1: went from the kids the lacrosse players to try not
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  Speaker 1: to violate any rules because they didn't want to first
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  Speaker 1: of all, screw up their graduation and have their diploma
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  Speaker 1: taken away. Secondly, they didn't want to risk anything in
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  Speaker 1: this unbelievable undefeated by the way lacrosse season they're having
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  Speaker 1: so far. They didn't want to mess this up. The
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  Speaker 1: kids alerted the parents. They went to the parents like
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  Speaker 1: that dad you heard there, who says I just started
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  Speaker 1: ruins guys and I don't know like I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't give your real ones, but we'll go down there.
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  Speaker 1: They went to a at the request of the kids,
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  Speaker 1: they went to a local cigar shop, got fake material.
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  Speaker 1: The guy took blue duct tape and put him in
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  Speaker 1: there to make fake cigars. Again, this is coming from
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  Speaker 1: the kids because they knew the rule. Also in there,
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  Speaker 1: you heard something. What kind of a Karen, either in
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  Speaker 1: the in the school department or somebody in that town
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  Speaker 1: saw this picture online and one of that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the kids or one of the parents
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  Speaker 1: graduation at their social media for a graduation photo. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of a Karen would turn them in over this
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  Speaker 1: and reported them and made it a big deal. So
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  Speaker 1: then they go on six hours, six hours before this game,
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  Speaker 1: this semi final game was supposed to take place of
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  Speaker 1: an undefeated season. So far, six hours before these kids
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  Speaker 1: and their parents and their families were alerted that they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be able to play in the game, coming
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  Speaker 1: from the principal who sent it on to the superintendent. Now,
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  Speaker 1: apparently after a confrontation, the principal actually came to his
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  Speaker 1: senses after the parents, you're going to hear here in
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  Speaker 1: a second, stormed his office and demanded answers. It was
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  Speaker 1: the superintendent in this school district that disallowed these kids
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  Speaker 1: from playing in this game six hours ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: Think about this for just a quick second. So these
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  Speaker 1: are lacrosse players, the high school kids, lifelong friends. You
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  Speaker 1: talk about a core memory of a lifetime win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about the game ripped away from them over
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  Speaker 1: a stupid rule that they didn't even break. And they
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  Speaker 1: obviously parents were upset. This guy right here, you saw
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  Speaker 1: in the first clip in the video he goes to
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  Speaker 1: the principal's office where the confrontation and this is key
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  Speaker 1: to it too. The confrontation took place somebody recorded on
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  Speaker 1: cell phone video, which normally I'm not in favor of
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  Speaker 1: and any kind of a secret video, But in a
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  Speaker 1: case like this where it's just so ridiculous, don't you
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  Speaker 1: kind of have to Anyway, here's the confrontation in the
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  Speaker 1: principal's office hours before this game where these kids were
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  Speaker 1: banned from playing in a semi final game in an
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  Speaker 1: in an undefeated season.
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  Speaker 3: Because you don't want to hear it, because we already
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  Speaker 3: made the decision after we read all the evidence It's
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  Speaker 3: all I've been doing for the last two days.
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  Speaker 1: Is hearing from parents and kids that are good kid
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  Speaker 1: and they're terrific kids.
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  Speaker 3: Kids are the scholarships for football and lacrosse and all
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  Speaker 3: this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you and you're.
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  Speaker 3: Telling me as a parent, I just think as a
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  Speaker 3: parent that I would let go smoke a stogy I've
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  Speaker 3: seen unless everything.
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  Speaker 1: He's been doing maybe a not in favor of this whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe a parent in that situation should
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  Speaker 1: be a little calmer. I wouldn't be. I have a
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  Speaker 1: feeling you wouldn't be either. But can you blame the
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  Speaker 1: guy that's a parent standing up for his kid. Yes
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  Speaker 1: he's raising his voice, Yes he's in the principal's office,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah they are secretly recording it. So what you've
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  Speaker 1: got to do something to fight back against these little
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  Speaker 1: local yogal tyrants. And I'm telling you there's people like
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  Speaker 1: this in every school district in the country, every single
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  Speaker 1: one of them. If you look hard enough, you can
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  Speaker 1: find them. I'm not attacking teachers. It's administrators like this.
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  Speaker 1: They have a little bit of power, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to not even look the other way, to not understand
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  Speaker 1: the difference between the letter of the law and the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the law. Law rules. These kids didn't even
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  Speaker 1: break it. There's nothing they did wrong, and they still
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  Speaker 1: lost this opportunity. They go on, here's more in the confrontation.
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  Speaker 2: With doing this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that's saying, I'm good with it, Drew. It's very
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  Speaker 3: I'm very disappointed to have to do this. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing my job.
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  Speaker 1: How we enforce the rules.
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  Speaker 3: I can't just look the other way. We've got more
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  Speaker 3: evidence that says.
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  Speaker 1: They did it than not. You do you honestly believe that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: The photograph you can't laugh with joy greath you can
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  Speaker 3: laugh all you want.
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  Speaker 1: You can't laugh with the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: This discussions over.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, can't let you guys in here?
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  Speaker 1: Respect? Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know. I just can't
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  Speaker 1: relate to the data. I just I understand his anger.
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  Speaker 1: How outrage would you be as a parent? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of respect? Yeah, thanks a lot. But did
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  Speaker 1: you hear happen to catch the words of the school
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  Speaker 1: principal there in the ipswitch? It's there. I let you
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  Speaker 1: guys in here. The conversation's over. I've done everything. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing my job. Conversation's over. It is it really though
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  Speaker 1: you didn't do anything to help out the parents and
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  Speaker 1: help out these kids that you supposedly and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the guy got the job, you know, interviewing on the
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  Speaker 1: crit I care about the kids first and their future,
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  Speaker 1: and though what about them what? They don't matter because
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  Speaker 1: they're graduating and they're out of your lives forever, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't care, and you can't think all of this
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  Speaker 1: could have been stopped. It's like every you know the
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  Speaker 1: expression you can't fight city hall, and you can't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, but you can push back. It's too
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  Speaker 1: late for these kids. I mean, they lost a core
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and that's why this story's going viral and blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But you have to if it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to something like this about secretly recording him, taking
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  Speaker 1: a cell phone in with the conversation, posting that online,
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  Speaker 1: sending that off to the local news media, you have
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  Speaker 1: to because you have to push back as best you
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  Speaker 1: possibly can against tyrants like this, as outrageous as that is.
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  Speaker 1: Ipswich high school lacrosse players banned from their semi final game.
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  Speaker 1: They had to forfeit it because of and here's the
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  Speaker 1: official oh by the way, here's the official MA Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: Academic whatever they hell that organization is, m IAA whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It is the official reason for the official reason written
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  Speaker 1: in the in the record books. The win lost record
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  Speaker 1: books forever, their entire season, a magical moment, memories for
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  Speaker 1: these kids forever. You know what The official reason is.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of players. Yeah, you know why, because you banded
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  Speaker 1: them over nothing, You absolute freaking idiots. How sad is that?
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  Speaker 1: How outrageous is that? This is why this story is
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  Speaker 1: picking up ground, even though it's a localized kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I got something else for you. It's even more outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: So it was an undefeated season, I told you that,
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  Speaker 1: but you hear semi finals. I don't know where this
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  Speaker 1: is in this tournament. I don't know what this tournament is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know lacrosse. There were one went away. One
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  Speaker 1: went away. If these kids were able to play and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have to forfeit from going on to their
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  Speaker 1: state championship, that's the real that's the real outrage on this.
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  Speaker 1: And they lost out. That's gone, that's changed. Can't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about that. That's gone forever for those poor kids.
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  Speaker 1: That's why this story is That's why this story is
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  Speaker 1: going viral as much as it is, because it's just
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  Speaker 1: so outrageous and just so ridiculous, and the classic case
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  Speaker 1: of little local yokel officials overreaching, over using their power,
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  Speaker 1: what little power they have, and destroying magical moments for
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  Speaker 1: these kids. I could understand it if they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to look the way, if they were breaking the law,
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  Speaker 1: even if they were actually smoking cigars, even if they
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  Speaker 1: were caught like with a joint somewhere, even if they
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  Speaker 1: were caught having a couple of beers behind the bleachers
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  Speaker 1: for this thing, if it makes enough attention, nothingless the
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  Speaker 1: principle in school superin can can do. But in this
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  Speaker 1: case where they literally, by the letter of the law,
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  Speaker 1: did nothing wrong and they were suspended anyway because of
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  Speaker 1: these idiots that didn't want to that had to save
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  Speaker 1: face that said, that's an absolute outrage. But again, I
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  Speaker 1: bet you it's in your local community wherever you live.
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  Speaker 1: You can't let them do it. What do you do?
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  Speaker 1: So what's the take what's the big takeaway in something
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  Speaker 1: like this? Right too late for these kids? Can you
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  Speaker 1: fight it? Can you fight city hall so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: or can you fight the local school board. Not always,
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  Speaker 1: but don't you have to push back? And it's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different now because of this social media age
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  Speaker 1: we live in. You can fight back. Not the biggest
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  Speaker 1: fan of secretly recording a meeting with a principal both
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  Speaker 1: when they're acting like this, don't you kind of have to?
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  Speaker 1: And I will guarantee you this. And all I can
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  Speaker 1: do is tell you my perspective on this. Even if
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have kids in that school system, but I
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  Speaker 1: would be a taxpayer. Let's pretend in that town, right,
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  Speaker 1: I will guarantee you. I would guarantee you I would
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  Speaker 1: go to as many school board meetings as they possibly
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  Speaker 1: could and hold this principle in the superintendent accountable. I
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  Speaker 1: promise you I would do that because it's such a travesty,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you were like a longtime resident. What if
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  Speaker 1: you were a graduate and alumni alumnus of that school
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  Speaker 1: and you saw this kind of thing happening, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what it is to any of those kids, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: want to stand up? You kind of have to. The
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  Speaker 1: great news is and there's always some good, kind of
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  Speaker 1: a good takeaway because of the power of social media now,
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  Speaker 1: like these parents who sent this to the local Boston
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  Speaker 1: media about that this is number one topic of all
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  Speaker 1: to try to fight back. They can't do anything for
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  Speaker 1: their kids, but they can prevent kids coming up through
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  Speaker 1: the ranks from getting screwed over like this town did
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  Speaker 1: it to these ones. You gotta fight back somehow, You
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  Speaker 1: just have to. Unbelievable though, So you may not have
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  Speaker 1: heard about that story until now, but it's probably probably
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  Speaker 1: going to grow. And I hate it that these kids
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  Speaker 1: were the sacrificial lambs for overreaching ridiculous school officials. But
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  Speaker 1: takeaway is at least you know you can fight back
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  Speaker 1: now somehow, some way to try that helpt out. Unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: All right, a little bit of outrage they head into
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