Introduction

You and your group are members of a school board confronting a difficult situation in your school district. Over the past three months, there have been a series of violent acts committed by students against other students in your school district. Similar acts of violence are occurring throughout America. The teachers, administrators, and parents of the community are beginning to be concerned with the safety of their public schools.

Most of the violence committed in the past three months in your school district and across America has been by students characterized as outcasts. Unaccepted by the majority of their peers, these students have faced ridicule since early childhood. These students tend to stick to themselves and are identifiable only by their dark, ill-fitting, and often torn clothing.

As a result, a group of parents have joined a national effort demanding that students matching the outcast profile of dark, ill-fitting, and torn clothing be removed from the school district or legal action will be taken against the school. To make matters worse, students in your school district have started to lash out against students matching the outcast profile. Students are now attacking any student seen in similar clothes or exhibiting anti-social behavior. The community is on the brink of mass hysteria against students with uncommon appearances.