I am pretty sure that there was no "blow job", but that the contact was "over the line" of what a teacher and a student should be doing together. And they were not alone. They were in a van with a bunch of other people. Most of whom didn't even notice anything when questioned. So it could be that he put his hand on her leg or something. Which is definitely over the line, but not at all the same as having a 16 year old give you a blow job. This sort of thing ruins people's lives when you post it. Consider that the girl deserves a little privacy about this, too. She already had to deal with more than she should have-- and having everyone think those things about her is victimizing her again. Many people reading this know who she is.
Kinda late to be talking about what the girl deserves at
this juncture, dontcha think? This after someone from or associated with Hyde posted disparaging comments about her character and mental state just a few posts back. Time to try a different strategy, mmm? And just
what, exactly, did Hyde DO for her
when it happened, pray tell?
Lemme guess. Hyde got the story from him, and Hyde got the story from her. And because she is a kid, and
we all know that most kids LIE (or at least Hyde School seems to think so), they made sure that they confronted her with half a dozen angry adults, probably most of them men, to make sure that she told "the truth." And whatever it was she told them, I think there is a fairly good possibility that -- if it wasn't to their liking -- they would have had her tell it again and again until it was.
Does
anyone honestly feel she was able to tell "The Truth" under those circumstances? She herself probably doesn't even understand the whole truth about what transpired to this day. Did Hyde School do the appropriate thing, which would have been to get her some
impartial outside counseling, to help her process what had just happened? And I do mean someone NOT on their "outside" consult roster, who would have just blabbed back to Hyde, as well as told them
only what they wanted to hear.My guess is that Hyde probably made an "official announcement" in school meeting at some point about the incident, that Earl Bigelow went off to "think about his life" for awhile, and that the girl was left to face the full heat of whatever anger the community felt about the matter -- alone. Amiright? I would also guess that the "official" version left a great many pertinent elements out, facts that might have put Earl Bigelow, and consequently Hyde School, in a far less than flattering light. Clearly
she didn't appear to be too comfortable with whatever was or was not communicated, since
she tried to bring the subject up in FLC ...
but Jeff Burroughs shut her down.
I am curious whether Hyde School prohibited or "discouraged" people from talking to her about this, and
"discouraged" her from talking to others, perhaps with intimations of certain impact on her standing in the school or ability to graduate if she did. If so, it certainly wouldn't be the first time they've pulled that strongarm. Gotta control those means of communication, eh? Can't have any accounts floating around that differ from the party line, can we now?