Posted on 02/03/2023 5:43:42 PM PST by simpson96
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.–A third teenager has been arrested for her role in a brutal fight between students at West Broward High School.
The beating was caught on camera.
The school’s principal sent a letter to parents stating that those who recorded the fight would also face consequences.
Video of this latest incident shows five girls savagely punching a classmate at the Pembroke Pines high school on Jan. 24.
Two of the girls were previously arrested, and Wednesday authorities announced the arrest of a third girl who was involved. Two of the three girls are 17 years old and the third is a 15-year-old.
The victim is recovering after suffering a mild concussion. She told police she is still suffering painful headaches since the attack.
The entire incident prompted the school’s principal to release a statement which read, in part:
“Students who videotape and / or incite a disturbance are also subject to disciplinary consequences. We are actively putting things in place to eliminate this behavior.”
Why would a student recording and not involved in the fight be subject to disciplinary consequences?
According to Broward County Public Schools, the principal’s reasoning is that, “The behavior incites and increases fights and disruptive activity.”
Local 10 News’ legal expert David Weinstein confirmed that can be the case.
“Yes, as a student on school property, you could get in trouble for taking out your cell phone and videotaping something which you wouldn’t get in trouble for if you were on public property doing the same thing at a time when you were not engaged as part of a school process,” (snip) it is not a right, but a privilege, to attend a public school, and the school has a right to restrict the activities that take place on their property that interferes with learning."
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“..it is not a right, but a privilege, to attend a public school.”
It 100% is a right under the Florida constitution. Which is why there are required legal proceedings that must be adhered to in order to suspend or nullify the right of a student to receive a public education.
No video... Fight? What fight?
Or "it was mutual combat not a beat down".
Along with my current motto of "carry, always carry" I am adding, "record, always record".
I guarantee the 17 year olds involved have a long record. So might the younger student. But the older ones are basically just being warehoused until they can have their days free to go on to being full time criminal.
looks like the usual suspects, usual victim.
Bingo…
Correct.
Rights are individual freedoms of thought, word, beliefs, actions, and expression. They require no other person to provide them to you or to help you exercise them.
In fact, the only time other people are involved is when the state tries to take them from you.
Everything else is a privilege, subject to the whims of the state. If it is a service provided by others (aside from jury duty), it is a man-made construct and not an inalienable right conveyed by God.
The problem with the young people of today is that they have been conditioned to believe rights are privileges and vice versa. This is a dangerous path, indeed, because we will get up in arms when our privileges are impacted but sit idly by while the government savages our rights.
Does Florida have school choice?
This is a Florida school so “Send In The DeSantis” to sort the mess out.
If they are just recording theres no issue. Its evidence.
You will not video tape things that make us look bad.
Now, get ready for your drag queen drama hour.
Anarcho-tyranny.
Punish the innocent.
Reward the guilty.
Charge the principal with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Time to go after those freaks too.
My lily-white nephew attended a majority black high school (before testing out to a magnet school). He said he protected himself by hanging out with the hispanic kids. If he didn’t, he said he would have been a victim of a small group of older thugs/bullies.
Not a happy experience for him.
“...it is not a right...to attend a public school”, said the “legal expert”.
Don’t agree, but it is really stupid on the part of the parents.
Why are **children** required to put up with an environment that would win **millions** for any adult in any workplace?
It is an abuse to send any child into government school.
Please read my tag line.
“fight”
If you haven’t noticed, the sorry state of “journalism” today, ever person who is quoted making a statement about anything is described as an “expert”.
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