Principal Madyun says problems were a wedgie, social media

Belleville High School Principal Abdul Madyun said it all started a week or so ago when some football players were goofing off in the locker room and gave a young man a wedgie.
He said the information came to the administration and so he had a conversation with the team, noting they were student-athletes and had to act like students first. The head coach and athletic director were there.
Principal Madyun said they told the athletes what had happened to other schools that had problems with bad behavior. Some lost a game. Some cancelled a season.
“Well,” Madyun said. “The team members took all this to say that we were cancelling the season.”
He said it was all over the social media that night that Friday’s Homecoming game was cancelled and in the morning he got calls from WWJ and the Ann Arbor News.
“So, we pulled them in again,” Madyun said. “We told them we hold them to high standards. We also talked about the consequences of going on social media.
“If I really cancelled Homecoming, wouldn’t I have called somebody, like the opposing team to tell them not to come?”
Madyun said there was a picture of this wedgie on the social media.
“I talked to the parents of the victim and they said nothing happened other than the wedgie,” Madyun said. “It got legs of its own. They thought it was funny so they snapped the picture.”
The picture was then sent on Snapchat, which disappears after being received, he said.
Madyun said the school didn’t punish anyone for this, but the coach disciplined the team in a football-related way. He said the original prank happened a few weeks ago.
According to Channel 7 TV News, teens sent many electronic messages to them asking for help in saving their Homecoming football game because so many band members would not be able to perform, the cheerleaders couldn’t cheer, and the football players couldn’t play. The students set up a Twitter movement with the hashtag #LetBellevillePlay .
The TV station sent reporter Kim Russell to the school where she talked to students. The report aired Oct. 7. When BHS Principal Madyun was interviewed he said the students got all upset for nothing. The game wasn’t cancelled.
He told about the wedgie and the students apparently misunderstanding. Madyun said he told them this could lead to hazing charges.
The students got on their electronic devices and the consequences would be for Tweets, not wedgies, Madyun said.