{"id":567801,"date":"2026-01-29T04:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:49:25","slug":"students-barred-from-basketball-game-over-online-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/567801\/","title":{"rendered":"Students barred from basketball game over online rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HINESBURG, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Student fans were banned from a high school basketball game between Rice and Champlain Valley Union High Schools Tuesday evening due to inappropriate online behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wcax\/docs\/Dear%20CVU%20Students.pdf \" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wcax\/docs\/Dear%20CVU%20Students.pdf \">In an email to students and parents<\/a>, CVU staff said student fans were not allowed at the game due to \u201cescalated, unacceptable speech exchanged online by students connected to both schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Vermont Principals\u2019 Association says this isn\u2019t the first time students have been barred from a game for online behavior. Officials hope opening up the conversation will help students learn the impact of their words online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was an intervention. I don\u2019t necessarily think it was a punishment because we were intervening in the situation to ensure that we could have safety for our student athletes, and this isn\u2019t the end. This is actually the start of the conversation for both schools,\u201d said the VPA\u2019s Lauren Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CVU said they are speaking with students about online behavior and encourage families to talk to their kids one-on-one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">School officials from Rice did not respond to a request for comment<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HINESBURG, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Student fans were banned from a high school basketball game between Rice and Champlain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,77149,535,142,19706,4505,45275,12237],"class_list":["post-567801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-cvu","tag-fans","tag-game","tag-rice","tag-social-media","tag-vermont","tag-wcax"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115976586934831548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}