Boy charged after head-butting a caseworker A 15-year-old South Lebanon Township boy was charged with aggravated assault after he head-butted a male Lebanon County Children & Youth caseworker while they were traveling in a van at Route 322 and Butler Road in West Cornwall Township at 2:37 p.m. Jan. 13, police said. The caseworker was [...]
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A fight at a Fulton County high school spilled into a neighbor’s property. State police in McConnellsburg said a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were involved in a fight Monday at 3 p.m. outside McConnellsburg High School. The two were not identified because they are juveniles. As they were fighting, they fell through a [...]
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The school day was well under way when the fight between two boys broke out on the fourth floor of Overbrook High School: A 17-year-old walking to class was punched multiple times by a younger boy. At first, the unarmed school police officers who intervened didn’t think the incident was serious enough to summon city [...]
Fighting at area high schools is a problem that school administrators and teachers address with student mediation, School Resource Officers, out-of-school suspensions and educational programming. During the first 11 weeks of this school year, there were 15 fights at NAHS, two fights at MHS and three fights at UMAHS, according to district statistics. On Friday [...]
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Police were called and several students were arrested after a fight broke out inside Chester High School. It started around 10:00 Tuesday morning on the second floor of the school. Authorities say that a fire was set to a trash can inside the boys bathroom. As a result, the fire department was called in and [...]
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PA. Video from PA licensed children’s home shows what happens when youth fight and adults do nothing
Teen Fight In Safe House Caught On Tape: MyFoxPHILLY.com The video, aired by a Philadelphia news station two weeks ago, shows teenage residents at The Children’s Home in Mount Holly, PA engaged in a vicious brawl at a housing unit as counselors watch without intervening. One of the counselors appears to be standing lookout at [...]
In March 2011 Judge Richard Caputo (Adam C. v. Scranton School District, 2011 WL 996171 (M.D. PA 2011)), ruled that the Schools knew that fights were not at all uncommon, that “kids were always getting hurt” that “there were fights every day” and “police were frequently called to the school.” The court also found that [...]