But some are not. Some do the same stupid things that non-athletes sometimes do. That depends on the sort of message a school wants to send to students, parents and the community in general. Kids make mistakes and more often than not they deserve a second chance. But let's make that clear from the start.
Politicians do it all the time and some high school athletes grow up to be politicians.
It's good early training. It will be two years before we have to face another gubernatorial race in New Hampshire and four before we have to put up with the inanities of presidential politics. Except for those candidates who will come here in 2002 to get a jump on the ones who will wait until 2003. So it's only over for awhile. It comes back.