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Don't know where you get that crazy idea. Traditions are just things people have always done and which they keep doing even when they're stupid or outdated.
Orientation. No need for anything further.
Then assign mentors, and allow only what would be allowed at work between adults.
Don't know where you get that bizarre notion. Just the opposite.
Orientation does not require anything other than...orientation.
Did just the opposite with most of the people I was at school with. I don't think the morons who were prefects at the time had even the vaguest clue of how counterproductive it actually was. The lesson was clear to the juniors though - the seniors are pathetic idiots. When a new headmaster took over he put a complete stop to it. The seniors were told it was an expulsion offence. What I noticed was that it was only the known bullies who grumbled about not being allowed to haze the juniors.
Does not require any kind of initiation. In fact initiation will alienate some children.
Only those who have been tortured are entitled to criticise it.
All the more reason why degrading or humiliating them is totally unacceptable.
Morgoth:
What you fail or just dont want to understand is that initiation has some greatly positive effects if implemented correctly but only if it is done at tertiary education level. I was at hostel back when it was still allowed to initiate first years, and one thing I saw is is that because of the initiation hostel had no racial problems whatsoever.
It's a multi-racial hostel, all first years were treated equally, everyone suffered equally but rarely too much, and if anyone suffered its because he asked for it. That alone created a comeradery amoungst the first years and we never did anything against each other because of anything as trivial as race.
Granted the final initiation was harsh but in retrospect it was just a type of controlled gauntlet, bad but not as bad as advertised and you get over it quickly, hell I got over it the very same night. That alone gave the first years who decided to brave it, myself included, a amount of self respect.
Of course we were never forced to do anything exessive, if something like that was ever required there were allways more than enough volunteers.
And lastly the initiation traditions of the hostel also acted as a buffer against the chaos that normally happens when a youth lives outside his parent's house for the first time, that alone proves its usefullness. Hell before I stayed at the hostel I was a snot nosed brat from a small town, if not for the structure and character building enviroment I would have never become so comfortable with city life so easely in such a safe manner.
No my friend, if you dont like initiation u were obviously subjected to either a bad initiation or you have the guts of a worm
I went through initiation and I didn't have a problem with it. In fact it was amusing to see some of the arrogant arseholes in my grade get brought down to size. Remember in grade 7 these kids are top of pile in primary school and tend to develop rather high opinions of themselves. Nothing like a dose of initiation when they arrive at high school to cure them of their ailment lol
...it's in university where their arrogance falls apart because they at last realise, no-one *really* cares about their sporting achievements and they do not receive any special privilege. No surprise that many of these people drop-out at university then 
I went through initiation and I didn't have a problem with it. In fact it was amusing to see some of the arrogant arseholes in my grade get brought down to size. Remember in grade 7 these kids are top of pile in primary school and tend to develop rather high opinions of themselves. Nothing like a dose of initiation when they arrive at high school to cure them of their ailment lol
