Comments on Soup: Midwestern Mama Cooking Up Life in the Heartland: Blue and White is NOT Blue and Right, Part II

While I agree that what happened was a travesty, I...

2011-12-02T00:27:12.255-06:00

While I agree that what happened was a travesty, I just wanted to point out that Sandusky retired in 1999, 3 years before the McQuery incident. So, there was no placing him on administrative leave and Sandusky wasn't in the chain of command above McQ at that time. Also, the grand jury report is a summary and does not include direct quotes of what was said. Paterno did not nec. know that it was child rape, he claims that he did not know the explicit details of what McQ told the grand jury. And, he reported what he did know to the head of campus police.

Thank you all. As much as I appreciate the commen...

2011-11-10T20:59:03.517-06:00

Thank you all. As much as I appreciate the comments, I surely wish that I didn't have to write about this because I wish that it hadn't happened.

Amy, I find it beyond comprehensible that McQueary still has a job. Elementary and high school teachers are trained to be mandatory first responders, but there isn't any training mandated for college staff, at least my husband didn't have any when he was a graduate assistant/interim faculty member at Penn State. After hearing of this, I can't understand why. College students rely on faculty and staff for a degree of counseling as most of them are away from home for the first time. If McQueary were a high school coach, he'd have been fired for not fulfilling his duty as a mandatory reporter...

I'm sure the reasoning is that at the time of the witnessed assault, McQueary was subordinate to Sandusky, therefore he wasn't in the chain of command to make a personnel decision. Unfortunately, it appears that he also wasn't in the chain of command to make a personal decision to stop a rape in progress.

This is perfect Courtenay!! I shared this on cafem...

2011-11-10T19:42:03.507-06:00

This is perfect Courtenay!! I shared this on cafemom.. as there are several people crying about the injustice that was done to Paterno.. pathetic.

I think - I hope - that at least some of the outra...

2011-11-10T18:41:37.653-06:00

I think - I hope - that at least some of the outrage is directed at McQueary still having a job after witnessing an assault and not reporting it to the authorities. Besides the actual assaults, that is what angers me the most. It's a horrible situation.

Amy

Courtenay again you focus the outrage for us. Tha...

2011-11-10T10:45:30.214-06:00

Courtenay again you focus the outrage for us. Thank you for the truthful and ideally healing words that challenge each of us to stand up and ACT when we see something horrifying we would prefer our mind not have to believe and would be EASIER and in some instances personally beneficial to ignore.

Wow. Fantastic post! Powerful. You are exactly ...

2011-11-10T10:22:19.508-06:00

Wow. Fantastic post! Powerful.

You are exactly right: those boys didn't have a choice, but the adult members of the Good Ole Boys Club did. The rioters do. They are choosing to side with the perpetrators rather than the children who were abused.

Thanks for posting this.

I had so much of this swirling around in my head, ...

2011-11-10T09:27:14.155-06:00

I had so much of this swirling around in my head, and I was going to write a post about this very same subject.

Yours was perfect. Exactly what I wanted to say.