[Peach]

This local newspaper article reflects that there was no police report filed nor a report to the school board. Parker's atty says the kid was not harmed.

http://www.townonline.com/lexington/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=516786

That article makes a little more sense to me than the more inflammatory articles because admit it, if your kid came home beat up by 10 people, there would be physical injury, you would immediately contact the school, you'd probably take your kid out of the school if adults truly watched and did nothing, and you'd file an immediate police report, etc.

Then look at this article from the School Board superindtendent.
http://lps.lexingtonma.org/

I don't know; there's just an awful lot about this story that doesn't make sense. It didn't make sense when I first read about it on FR and it makes even less sense now.

And since we gained a great reputation for research during the Rather fake memo scandal, I'd hate to see us jump on a bandwagon using faulty information.

[Captain Rhino]

My AOL spyware program just popped!

You might want to warn readers that the lps.lexingtonma.org link has a trojan horse virus called "infostealer" associated with it.

Now why, oh why, would a controversial school's website have an information stealing virus on it. Perhaps not all is as it seems. Hmmmm...maybe someone should tell the police...

[Aquinasfan]

you'd probably take your kid out of the school if adults truly watched and did nothing, and you'd file an immediate police report, etc.

I don't know about you, but I grew up in a relatively affluent suburb, and I saw kids get beat up practically every day. Often "adults truly watched and did nothing." I never heard of anyone filing a police report, nor did any of these parents pull their kids out of school. It's hard to beat free babysitting.