Anthony Cracco The Attendance Dean And Football Coach At Mepham High School

In this essay, the author

• Describes how anthony cracco, the attendance dean and football coach at mepham high school, and laura raheb, a mother of one of the students attending the school, were caught having an affair.
• Explains that mr. raheb brought the situation to the board so they could further investigate it. he believed that his daughter and two other daughters would have to face undo emotional distress if they had to see mr cracco everyday.
• Explains that the bellmore-merrick central high school district board of education concluded that mr. cracco did nothing wrong when he left his pregnant wife at home for his secret rendezvous at the merrick train station with mrs. raheb.
• Argues that mr. raheb believes that the school board showed racial bias because of his "muslim sounding" last name. the board swept the whole ordeal under the rug due to the 2003 football hazing incident.
• Explains that the board banned mr. raheb from any school grounds in the bellmore-merrick area and any and all school activities, including attending his daughters graduation.
• Asks whether the board showed any bias because cracco was a man, despite raheb's allegation of racial bias.
• Asks if raising the bar for students includes morality and judgment, since detommaso and harrington ruled cracco did nothing wrong, do the students believe that this behavior is ok?
• Opines that if history is used as a guideline, the short answer would be no. cracco would have been judged "whore" or "slut."
• Opines that the bellmore-merrick board, using mr. detommasoso and principal harrington recommendations, ruled mr cracco did nothing wrong and chalked it up to boys-being-boys.
• Opines that schools have a right to police teachers’ extra-curricular off campus behavior, as well as the violation of teachers' privacy when pupils or parents track down and crawl through their personal life.
• Argues that there is an undeniable double standard in the way society judges and punishes women, while men who behave similarly are treated far less harshly and in some cases praised for their fallacious behavior.
• Asks why mr cracco's case was hidden in shadows and kept from the community so parents could decide for themselves if they want their children to be taught by him.