Link to Fairhaven apology to victim
Excerpt from article follows: FAIRHAVEN — For the first time, school officials have apologized for and talked openly about the way they handled the Camp Wishbone hazing case.
Last Friday, Fairhaven High School Principal Jean Cote convened students by grade in the school’s performing arts center. He talked for about 20 minutes about the incident and the impact it had on the school.
“He said he handled it wrong, (that) he should have handled it better,†said a student who was present at the address but didn’t wish to be identified. “He said he feels bad for the kid that it happened to,†and that the perpetrators and their families should be embarrassed.
Meanwhile, on the same day, Superintendent of Schools Robert N. Baldwin issued a statement on the school’s Web site about the incident in which he praised the victim for coming forward and reflected on the “hard lessons†learned from the case.