He rushed in this morning, his eye swollen and his knuckles bleeding. He drops off his stuff, makes a big commotion, and asks for his work because he's going home early.
I take him in the hallways, and hear his story. Apparently a couple of kids jumped him on the way to school today. That's not that unusual; there are beefs between the schools and sometimes kids who go to our school are singled out and beat up because of it. But this one was unusual. My student got into some little ruckus with a boy at the busstop. The boy goes home, gets his dad, and the dad - with two other brothers in tow - follows the bus that my student got on. As soon as the bus let him off, the dad pulls over his car, lets his three boys out of the car, and leans against it. He watches, and the three boys beat the crap out of my student. In the middle of the street, with my student's notebook spilling all over. Finally, the traffic makes them scatter, and my student gets to school.
This is one of those moments when my image of people being fundamentally good gets a chink in the armor. A father driving his three kids to beat up a 14-year old boy? How on earth does that happen? It just makes me sick.
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Can you convince the kid to press charges? That's beyond fucked up.
That's sick!
Even if fights aren't that unusual ... I agree that the circumstances of this definitely were. If you know who the guy was, is there anyone you can report to (school, or otherwise)? I doubt the guy would have any problem doing that sort of thing again, and may have done worse in the past.
It was reported to the school. The school police questioned the kid, and he didn't want to press charges because of fear of retribution.
Yeah, that's a few different kinds of screwed up. But the fact is, now they've gotten away with it and there's not much stopping them from doing it again.
Of course, it's also possible that they've already gotten away with it previously and that this is the repeat offense. And since it happened in-transit between school and home, it's a school police issue, not BPD. They're not seen as having a lot in the way of legal teeth.
that seems to be quite normal in baltimore city...i hadnt heard of it till i arrived here. my first year, i had a mom come into my classroom and try to fight a student that had been picking on her child. when i tried to get in the way, mom swung at me! this past year, the beef between two of my students got so bad that both of the girls' moms fought. mother daughter vs. mother daughter. wtf??
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