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March 18, 2005

Hatfieldelas and the McLopezes

At my school, two girls bumped into each other a year ago. They looked at each other in a bitchy way, and it has escalated to dangerous levels. One of them is my student, and Friday had a confrontation in class with the girl from the 7th grade. This nasty girl (with serious body odor, as I know from separating the girls in a prior fight) was threatening my student with death from the smelly girl’s boyfriend. He’s in high school, and quite ugly.

This would just be a normal fight, except for the technology. My girl gets on her cellphone and calls her mom. Her mom calls up other family members, and soon an entire float of Hatfields is heading to the school to get the boyfriend and smelly girl.

Unfortunately, one of the cousins of my student is also related to the smelly girl, and calls up smelly girl’s mom. Smelly girl’s mom calls up the McCoys, and they all head for the school.

We teachers didn’t know any of this. I already had to deal with 3 other fights during the day in the school, and we’re usually relieved when fights occur outside the school. However, this fight was getting too large. In the end, my girl was knocked down and kicked in the head. The cousin, who is also a student, was cut in the face by the boyfriend of smelly girl. The boyfriend was hit in the head with a bat, and both mothers attacked each other.

What dismays me is that the parents encourage this behavior by engaging in this behavior. Nobody died this time, but they could have. And why? One girl bumped into another girl, one year ago. How lame.

Posted by G at March 18, 2005 07:31 PM

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Posted by: telefrank at March 22, 2005 03:53 PM