May
8

TX. Fight at Thurgood Marshall HS draws Congressman’s Attention

TTAPR on May 8th, 2012

U.S. Rep. Al Green released a statement Saturday condemning a violent confrontation between two students at Thurgood Marshall High School last week. Cell phone video of the April 27 incident shows students crowded in a stairwell watching sophomore girls beat each other, one swinging what’s said to be a sock with a metal lock in [...]

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May
4

LA. Fights At Local School Posted To YouTube

TTAPR on May 4th, 2012

Fights between both boys and girls from McDonogh 35 High School in New Orleans were posted online to YouTube, shocking parents with the graphic images. The Orleans Parish School Board said the students involved in the fights have been disciplined. However, some students say the fights aren’t unusual. Videos of the fights show students brawling [...]

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May
4

NY. Girl On Girl Bullying In The Elmira City School District, Part II

TTAPR on May 4th, 2012

Elmira, NY—In Part One of “Girl On Girl Bullying” we showed you videos of girls fighting one another, uploaded to Facebook and Youtube by students in the Elmira City School District. The student’s faces are covered to protect their identities. A Broadway Middle School student we spoke with says she is in 3 out of [...]

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Mar
26

MD. School fight in Howard County Goes Viral as Parent Fights Student and Gets Knocked Out Cold

TTAPR on March 26th, 2012

A video that’s gone viral shows an unusual fight outside a Howard County school, and now charges have been filed in connection to the incident. Classes were letting out Wednesday at Long Reach High School in Columbia when a man walked up who, “put a ski mask on as he approached the school and accosted [...]

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Mar
22

SC. A school fight caught on tape and a mother says her son was a victim of bullying

TTAPR on March 22nd, 2012

A fight at an Upstate school was caught on tape and a mother says her son was a victim of bullying. Melinda Rawlinson tells the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office her 14-year-old was going to class when he was attacked by two other male students at Lakeside Middle School on March 1. Rawlinson showed deputies cell [...]

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Mar
21

UK. Mothers arrange brawl on Facebook then fight outside children’s school

TTAPR on March 21st, 2012

Before America starts emulating the UK, let’s take a good look at the UK: First you have 2 moms fighting on facebook and then taking their fight to the kids school. Joanna McVey and Lorraine Couper brawled near Dunblane Primary School in Stirling after the dispute online. Stirling Sheriff Court heard the fight spilled on [...]

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Mar
15

WI. Milwaukee teacher punched during fight between girls

TTAPR on March 15th, 2012

A Milwaukee teacher was accidentally punched in the face when four girls got into a fight in a bathroom at a south side public school, officials said. Three ninth-grade girls and one seventh-grade girl at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning started arguing in the girls’ bathroom about 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 14. A teacher [...]

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Feb
21

CA. Bullied teen arrested fighting back is speaking out

TTAPR on February 21st, 2012

Joshua Despres, the teen arrested after allegedly using racial slurs during a high school fight, says he was bullied for months and school administrators did nothing to prevent it. The Little Compton teenager who was arrested Tuesday following a fight at Portsmouth High School is speaking out and telling his side of the story. Patch [...]

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Feb
21

MA. School fight videotaped and posted on you tube

TTAPR on February 21st, 2012

School Committee member Rick Starbard expressed shock this morning at a videotaped fight between two girls that took place apparently after school ended at Lynn English High School at the nearby Cook Street playground. The videotape shows two girls fighting over an approximately eight-minute period – while a group of teenage boys and girls looked [...]

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Feb
20

TX. Families alarmed by school fight club

TTAPR on February 20th, 2012

Videos posted on YouTube are raising concerns with parents and school officials. They show a group of middle school girls watching, and even encouraging, a fight between two people. Several of these videos have been posted on the Internet. KCBD has been investigating and got the story behind them. Laura Lavato is the parent of [...]

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