Fifth grader charged after bus fight over snack cake [9 yr old beaten to unconsciousness]

AP ^ | April 2, 2004 | Staff writer

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Greensboro, North Carolina-AP -- A North Carolina fifth-grader has been charged with assault for knocking out a boy in a school bus fight over a snack cake.

(snip) ...According to the principal, when the boy sitting next to him asked for a bite, Kevin said no and was smacked in the face with a stuffed Tweety Bird. Kevin hit back, but was slammed against a window and hit in the back.

Then he fell in the aisle and was stomped.

School officials say when the bus driver pulled the aggressor off him, Kevin was unconscious.

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A delicious yellow cake with creme filling covered in white icing and trimmed with fudge stripes. Twin-wrapped 10 to a carton.

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Public schools, again. This is just part of "developing social skills", isn't it?

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[muawiyah]

The basic instruction from both your momma, the school and the bus driver was to keep your snacks put away ~ NO EATING ON THE BUS.

This is one of the reasons for the rule, eh?!

[Gerasimov]

But it was a Zebra cake. I grew up on those things ... mom gave me two bucks for lunch. A fifty cent zebra cake and a fifty cent chocolate milk every day meant a net $5.00 gain in pocket money by weeks end. Can't blame the kid. I'd kick butt for a zebra cake, too.

[T.Smith]

If some kid did that to my son I would go to his house and beat his father senseless.

[Puppage]

A North Carolina fifth-grader has been charged with assault for knocking out a boy in a school bus fight over a snack cake.

WOW. That must be some snake cake!

[petitfour]

I hope the boy's family presses charges. It's not enough to let the school discipline the perp. He'll be back to school in a day.

[Tijeras_Slim]

What makes you think there's a father in that household?

[Buffettbassman]

As a parent of a 12 year old who spent TWENTY DAYS in a hospital due to bullying and assault, I can even begin to describe how pervasive this is in the schools systems. If you got kids in ANY school, this IS happening! Check out the Youth Violence Project (of which I have no affiliation) and you'll have your eyes opened! Lobby your state officials to propose and PASS a bullying law that requires school officials to notify the parents as well as law enforcement. In our case, the school was aware of at least three prior incidents between my kid and the other kid(s) before the final assault. NOT ONCE did the school notify me that the incidents occurred..only until he required hosptialization did they fess up.

STOP THIS NOW!

[ahayes]

When stuffed Tweetie Birds are outlawed, only outlaws will have stuffed Tweetie Birds.

[Aquinasfan]

School is hell. Prison for children who have committed the crime of being born.

[mountaineer]

smacked in the face with a stuffed Tweety Bird

I tot I taw a Zebra cake!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

mmmmmmmmmmmm violence obtained zebra cakes . . .

[Aquinasfan]

As a parent of a 12 year old who spent TWENTY DAYS in a hospital due to bullying and assault, I can even begin to describe how pervasive this is in the schools systems. If you got kids in ANY school, this IS happening!

Of course it is, and everyone knows it. We all went through it. How could we not know? But it's much easier to pretend it's not happening.

Teachers pretend to teach, students pretend to learn, and parents pretend that the teachers are teaching and the students are learning. The system works perfectly.

School isn't about learning. It never has been. For parents, it's about free babysitting. For the elites, it's about molding society.

[Mamzelle]

Buses are often an easy place for little thugs to do their thing--as are recess, PE, lunchtime, walking home from school.

Schools need to have plentiful security these days if they are going to function and survive. The advent of cheap electronic surveillance should prove helpful--put CAMERAS on those buses, because the driver can't drive and keep an eye on all those kids. Put cameras in the hallways, and in between buildings. Kick out the transgressors promptly.

I've thought that perhaps schools ought to get out of the transportation end of the schooling. Who says the school has to provide transport, anyway? It's just a big liability for the school system. Let 'em walk, or make Mom drive.

[gopheraj]

How horrible for your child!

When our son was in the third grade, there was a black kid who bullied him every day on the bus - just picky stuff. He was a big ole boy. Finally hubby had had enough and went to the kids home. He could hear the foot steps of the dad coming. HE was a huge guy. LOL Hubby almost backed down. He told the man what had been happening to Kelly. The man said okay, shut the door and yelled for his son. We could hear him spanking him from outside. Kelly and the boy were friends after that.

[Riley]

School is hell. Prison for children who have committed the crime of being born.

That's about how I remember it.

[billbears]

Well, I could see it happening if it was over a Moonpie maybe....Good to see the public schools are getting so much better in this state. Thanks of course to 16 years of handling by Jim Hunt I imagine

[Esther Ruth]

There would not be a problem if ALL the children had snack cakes - but because one did and the other didn't we have a problem. No one should have more then those around them, everybody should be equal in their material goods, so there is no jealousy or envy. And the father who makes enough money to buy his kid snack cakes should be MADE to use the money instead to buy all the children snack cakes. This is so unfair! And the little girl with the new spring outfit her mom just bought her - I don't blame the other girls if they throw mud at her - she should not have more than others - the money for the dress should have been put in a kitty for children with no clothes. (sarcasm of course) No instead this bully punk who has hurt this boy should be made to work extra odd jobs after school to pay for the doctors bills of this boy, then he should work more jobs to buy every kid in that school cakes, while he eats rice and beans -

[muawiyah]

No, no, they don't "snack on snakes" down there ~ they take 'em to church wif'em!