Last November in Las Vegas, ten students on the Cheyenne High School football team were involved in a melee with the opposing squad immediately following a game. The incident was broadcast repeatedly on local television and led Jerry Hughes, the executive director of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, to suspend the team from participating in the upcoming regional playoffs. “It was a brawl, an outright brawl,” Hughes noted. “We hate doing these things, but we felt it was a very serious situation that occurred.”
Mr. Arum is author of Judging School Discipline, and is a professor of sociology and director of educational research at New York University.
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