Difference in Approach

Two District 155 Crystal Lake South High School girls were arrested on felony charges for handing out defamatory leaflets about an alleged homosexual school mate. (Read the comments under these articles for more of the story.)

In Rockford, three Winnebago High School teens who made a bomb threat were arrested on charges of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Reporter Bridget Tharp wrote,

Three Winnebago High School students face charges in juvenile court of misdemeanor disorderly conduct after threatening to blow up the high school April 30.

The three “knowingly threatened to blow up Winnebago high school, causing assistant principal Bryon Houy to be alarmed and disturbed,” according to court documents. The three were arrested May 1.

So, threaten to blow up a school and you go to juvenile court.

Hand out a nasty broadside about a fellow student and you get arrested for a felony.


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