I'm so tired of seeing that Romney's behavior was acceptable back then.

[Javaman]

35. Remember, something being acceptable and no one doing anything about it...

are two different things.

"boys will be boys" was the throw away line from people who didn't give a shit and honestly believed that a little "lord of the flies" was a good thing for development.

I remember being constantly picked on and beat up. if the kid that beat me up was caught in the act, they were given detention. Which usually amounted to a few days in study hall. After which, they would either "learn their lesson" or if they were a sociopath, would come back with a vengeance. Those who "crossed the line" by beating someone so senseless, the would be kicked out of school. Which, sometimes was worse.

Back then, I recall two people in particular who were kicked out due to excessive violence. No charges, no juvie hall, nothing. Just kicked out.

Later in the year, one of these two guys, went after the guy he originally beat up as "revenge" for him getting kicked out of school.

the nutcase beat the crap out of the poor kid to the point were the kid was in the hospital for weeks. The nutcase? charged with assault but since he was a minor, did a short stint in juvie, only to be let out before the end of the year and allowed to "graduate" because he did his studies with a "tutor" aka a state mandated teacher who passed him on the most minimal of standards.

The beat up kid? He didn't graduate. He had to retake the classes he missed in summer school and repeat a quarter of his last year 12th grade to earn his diploma.

Of those two kids that got kicked out of school. One vanished off the face of the earth. More than likely dead. The other, last time I saw him was working at a car wash in my old neighborhood and looked about 20 years older than he was. He tried to strike up a conversation with me like I was his buddy. This guy tormented me, picked on me and when he felt like it, beat me up just for kicks back in school. I looked at him and just said, "really? you really think I'm going to talk to you after the way you used to treat me? Really?" I just walked away. I didn't feel satisfied. I just felt sad for him.