Wilmington, N.C.: “The parents of a 16-year-old girl who recently married a 40-year-old former high school coach have filed a lawsuit against the Brunswick County Board of Education, saying school officials failed to protect their daughter.” According to the school board, administrators at South Brunswick High School “closely monitored and limited” the apparent mentoring relationship between student Windy Hager and track coach Brenton Wuchae “but never found evidence of any romance.” On Jun. 18 Wuchae resigned his position and married Ms. Hager. Superintendent Katie McGee stated the next day that “when dealing with tenured employees, suspicion alone cannot warrant dismissal.” Now parents Dennis (”Bubba”) and Betty Hager are suing the school for not doing more, and “have said they reluctantly signed a consent form allowing their daughter to marry her coach”. (AP/WSOC-TV, Jul. 11; WWAY first and second reports; Brunswick Beacon; Wilmington Star-News; ABCNews.com)(via Above the Law).
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…and “have said they reluctantly signed a consent form allowing their daughter to marry her coach”.
Given the degree of their own moral and legal culpability, may we safely assume they are also suing themselves? Or were their own pockets not deep enough to mend their wounds?
Let me get this straight.
Bubba and Betty are suing because of a marriage *to which they consented*?
Does the word “consent” have any meaning at all?
This one has R. 11 written all over it.
“This one has R. 11 written all over it.”
Good luck with that.
Rule 11 only applies when judges decide to apply it… which is to say, essentially never.
But yeah, this case is quite ridiculous.
Sounds as though they are placing blame on the wrong party. To reluctantly sign a “contract” makes it sound as though these parents let their daughter address them by their first names. Are your children your “friends” or are they your “children”? I think the after effects of wine and brie cheese are at work here.
Mike, I don’t think Bubba is the name of a guy who goes to wine and cheese parties.
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