A promising tennis career

Scholarship to the Ivy League

young women in a line fawning

 

Arson investigation

Student beaten unconscious

Teacher’s tires slashed

 

Smiling photos on the wall

father pleased always

giving us the play by play at dinner

 

No one believes her when she comes forward

the dead hanging dog is excused

a precedent is set

 

Continual allowances

constant excuses

Coming news stories might make us think twice.

But probably not.