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 a 7th grader at Smylie Wilson Middle School. She says these fights are initiated by students attempting to be a part of the in-crowd. Lavato says it’s friends fighting friends.
“Either you’re going to fight or you’re going to get jumped. To me that’s how I see it,” Lavato said.
Some videos show fights happening in school restrooms. Others show the same group of girls fighting in a Lubbock park.
Lavato says one video was taken in the Smylie Wilson bathroom. You can see the girls don’t appear to be mad at each other, and it sounds like they don’t want to get caught. Then a fight breaks out between two girls.
“The girls are screaming, hit her, get her, pop her…” Lavato said.
At one point, you can hear a girl being slammed into the mirror.