A student actually created this petition. The kids that witnessed the entire thing….which was nothing but a wave over to the other well liked kid. Shame on SPHS/Mr Smith for prejudging the situation. Video shows whole thing. It’s time for Mr Smith to take extra classes on Inclusion.
Nobody cares, it's over, and Occam's Razor persists. By age 18? 19? whatever age this kid is, (successful) young men have to have a decent radar for situations that may not BE bad, but LOOK bad. When stuff goes down, adults in charge usually (>80% of the time) correctly point out the culprit. In 2024 you just cannot be the guy who was standing there when the person next to you gets....whatever.
We already know this young man was "asked to leave" Spalding (either the school or the lacrosse program or both) which raises its own set of questions about his ability to use decent judgment for even the very flexible "prep school standard." So I'd think most outside observers would be inclined to think the situation at SPHS is yet another time this young man found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing to the wrong person. Probably with no bad intention, probably never gave it a single malicious thought. But there he was.
Unless you live a life of the top 0.001%, your privilege is not endless and you gotta make better day-to-day decisions. Sorry bro.
