High School Hazing: post #4

The last chapter of this book struck a very important question to all who notice and see hazing as a problem. Can hazing be stopped? Nuwer says, "If hazing in the United States is to be stopped or even curtailed, it must be attacked as the pervasive social problem that it is. If addressed as a problem in health and social studies classes, hazing can perhaps be best understood in the context of other human rights abuses such as racism and harassment." What I was able to gather from this chapter was... possibly? I mean, given that everybody realizes that what goes on is hazing, realizes how bad it is, and gives effort to stop hazing, do you really think this will happen? Kids constantly go against their parents, simple rules at school, and major laws in the real world all the time! Kids in high school and college haze as tradition, and it is hard to change tradition when the hazing has been done on the kids in past years. I think the real problem with hazing is when alcohol gets involved and i think ultimately that's what needs to be stopped. When alcohol gets involved, peoples bodies are hurt and damaged, and as I've learned people can also die. There's no doubt that this is a serious problem in my mind, but I know its not the same for other teenagers and college students. If death won't scare the kids enough to stop, I don't know what else will.