Incident on FCPS middle school bus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The attacker should have been moved to a program that provides services for emotionally unregulated kids and not allowed to stay in a mainstream program.

At this point, that program should be in juvie

+1,000. After choking another student to the point where she left marks on his neck, this student needs to be expelled.

[Anonymous]

That is so messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should they have put her on a different bus? Required carpool? How would that work? How would they keep her from passing him in the hall? Just wondering about the logistics.

For one thing kids who are violent on the bus need to lose bus priviliges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should they have put her on a different bus? Required carpool? How would that work? How would they keep her from passing him in the hall? Just wondering about the logistics.

For one thing kids who are violent on the bus need to lose bus priviliges.

When I was a kid they would have lost bus privileges. I guess they don’t do that anymore …

[Anonymous]

What did this kid say to her? Violence isn't acceptable and it is a good thing she was punished, but I also find it hard to believe it came out of nowhere.

It's worth understanding what happened prior to the incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did this kid say to her? Violence isn't acceptable and it is a good thing she was punished, but I also find it hard to believe it came out of nowhere.

It's worth understanding what happened prior to the incident.

There was a restraining order. I suspect the judge heard the other side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did this kid say to her? Violence isn't acceptable and it is a good thing she was punished, but I also find it hard to believe it came out of nowhere.

It's worth understanding what happened prior to the incident.

You must not have gone to an urban school growing up. I did for MS. Fights happened sometimes simply if one person decided to pick a fight with another - and they were very violent just like this (although all the ones I saw were when the kids got off the bus or while at school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should they have put her on a different bus? Required carpool? How would that work? How would they keep her from passing him in the hall? Just wondering about the logistics.

For one thing kids who are violent on the bus need to lose bus priviliges.

They still can. She didn’t lose privileges after this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did this kid say to her? Violence isn't acceptable and it is a good thing she was punished, but I also find it hard to believe it came out of nowhere.

It's worth understanding what happened prior to the incident.

I was bullied relentlessly for simply being a shy kid who existed in middle school. I barely talked. Why do you assume the kid said anything? Bullies bully simply because they can and they get away with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did this kid say to her? Violence isn't acceptable and it is a good thing she was punished, but I also find it hard to believe it came out of nowhere.

It's worth understanding what happened prior to the incident.

One child was suspended and the other was not. One child was granted a protective order. Watching the attack, the child who was strangled did not seem to be doing much to stop the attack, they were slapping away the girls hands and that is about it. The news article says that the girl had bullied this child before.

You are right, we don't know what was said before hand but I would guess that the judge asked those questions and that the school asked those questions. No one has rushed out to post "the other kid used unacceptable language."

Some kids are mean and bully other kids. It happens. The school should handle it early on but when it becomes assault, the kid who assaulted another kid should be punished. The girl was suspended. Hopefully she is not allowed on the bus, I don't think the story addresses that. They said that the boy sees her at school and that they pass each other but I don't remember it saying anything about the bus.

A child assaulting another child is serious. That 6 year old in Newport News had tried to strangle his K Teacher, was trying to whip kids on the playground, and broke the Teachers phone the very week he shot his Teacher. Not every bully or out of control kid ends up shooting someone but the behavior tends to escalate and needs to be addressed. The victim should be able to feel safe at school. The girl should be moved to a different school, preferably one where she is required to attend something to deal with her aggression.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I went to religious school 40 years ago and I could see something like this happening.

But the aggressor would be expelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should they have put her on a different bus? Required carpool? How would that work? How would they keep her from passing him in the hall? Just wondering about the logistics.

Expel her from school. Kids like her have no right being in a mainstream school setting.

[Anonymous]

The trauma will stay with that boy forever. I'm almost tearing up right now. When someone closes your airway, your fear of death is instinctual. I have a smallish boy, who fortunately has not been bullied. But I would be haunted, hortified, and livid if my my kid ever endured abuse, bullying or assault like that. You can never make a child feel safe again, once they have lived through that and connected it to the school experience. Boys have feelings too.

[Anonymous]

Press the charges on the charming young lady and civilly sue her family
It’s excellent you had the protective order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The attacker should have been moved to a program that provides services for emotionally unregulated kids and not allowed to stay in a mainstream program.

THIS