They are being bullied out of sight, so ones word against the other. Pretty standard response to this is to take out the loud mouth and the rest will usually fall into line. This isn't how out happens now but for the reality of the show it's the world rules. You can't retcon today's morality and busy business onto…

How would he be a pedophile, anyway? He was taking pictures of people his own age. *derp*

Ignore a fight at the assembly is weird? In the 80s that would have been pretty normal. There would not have been a day of mourning, grief counselors, and a crack team of behavioral psychologists from the local University on site for a mediation. Fights happened, they were social events, they lasted a few minutes, and…