Wam's World

Here's what I've heard:

There's this Senior student who got in trouble after racking up a huge gambling debt (reportedly ranging from 300K-1M!) from betting in NBA/ college basketball games. After the bookies (also Seniors) couldn't get the money from the student they went to see the Dad. When the Mom found out she told the principal. After a preliminary investigation it turns out a several Juniors and Seniors were into it, but only betting small amounts.

I don't know what's more shocking: the amount the Senior girl owes (yes, the student in trouble is FEMALE) or the very existence of
bookies and bettors in the school. (Then again I was naive enough to think that everyone from our batch would graduate high school still virgins, but's that's another story.)

Bettors and bookies have been identified. Girl (who according to now ex-friends definitely has a gambling problem) initially tried to pay
off the debt with a check that later bounced. Principal asked her not to pay off the debt, as the bookies (and the probably illegal
organization handling the money) don't want to go public with this. School is in a bind about what to do with the girl. She's about to
graduate. They're thinking of having the guilty parties perform community service (as opposed to conduct C, suspension or expulsion)
in school, though what's obviously needed is professional therapist.

Girl's father is no help as he seems to be a gambler as well and condones her daughters behavior ('cept for racking up the huge debt,
of course.) Girl's mother just agrees to what the father says. Girl is stuck on a dangerous path w/c she can't get of because SJCS lacks resources. Man, a lot's changed since I left high school.