Posted on 04/25/2010 3:11:38 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
Saline police say an 11-year-old boy fell unconscious and went into convulsions after he was assaulted by a group of students on a school playground earlier this week.
The victim, a 6th grade student at Heritage Elementary School, was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center by ambulance after school officials learned he was suffering seizure-like symptoms late Tuesday morning. He was released later that evening.
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Bunten said the altercation started shortly after 11 a.m. during lunch hour at the school at 290 E. Woodland Dr. The victim was surrounded by the students on a field and was pushed to the ground by one of them, reports said. They then kicked and punched him on the ground.
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Bunten said officers have not yet spoken to all the students involved and do not yet have permission from all of their parents. Some interviews with students and their parents were scheduled for Friday evening.
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Bunten said there is some indication of prior incidents involving the victim and at least one of the students, who are also in 6th grade.
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What does he think the kids were kicking him for? Insane.
Police reports show a parent volunteer was monitoring the playground at the time but could not immediately see what was happening because the students surrounded the boy in a circle and blocked her view.
School Superintendent Scot Graden said the district is conducting its own investigation into the incident and has already disciplined the seven students believed to be involved. He would not elaborate.
This seems pretty obvious.
Bad luck intervened. By being pushed from behind, the kid had something akin to severe whiplash. Unintentional, unpredictable, and not even especially mean among boys that age.
Likely he has a slight frame and an underdeveloped neck. It created enough trauma to the spinal cord to give him convulsions. Doctors need to examine him very carefully, to insure that it didn’t cause any long term damage, or that he has a preexisting problem, like a spinal cord lesion.
Other than that, the principal should have a serious talk with the other boys, to let them known that it couldn’t be foreseen, but had it happened under different circumstances, and just as relatively innocently, they could have been facing manslaughter charges.
So no more fighting on the playground, or else.
Lord of the Flies
Hey, "parent." When a bunch of kids gather in a huddle or scrum for no apparent reason, that's called a "clue" and your cue to investigate what's going on.
“Which victim group did this poor kid belong to’’? I’d say ‘’white middle-class’’?
“This seems pretty obvious.
Bad luck intervened. By being pushed from behind, the kid had something akin to severe whiplash. Unintentional, unpredictable, and not even especially mean among boys that age.”
Either that or they were kicking him in the head when he was down.
When I was in school back in the 50s, there were different groups of teachers assigned to the playground during recess and lunchtime to monitor the students. We still had a few fights break out, but there was someone there to break them up before they got out of hand, and those students involved were immediately sent to the principal’s office, and in some cases, suspended.
We did send my son to a Catholic High School back in 1990. He was bullied unmercifully. It became a form of school terrorism against him. It was a certain group of boys with one ringleader. We went to the principal, and all these boys got was some sort of slap on the wrist. No suspensions, no expulsions. In fact, the principal insinuated that my son must be doing something to make these guys want to bully him! we were outraged. When nothing was finally done, my husband had had enough.
One day these students were waiting for my son to ambush him, to beat him up. Thankfully, my son defended himself and got the better of them. At that point, when the principal just gave these boys a 3 day suspension, my husband took matters into his own hands. He called the local police, and swore out a complaint against the ringleader. The police went to the school and arrested the boy (I think they called his parents first, but arrested he was). And then we pulled my son out of this school and put him into a Baptist school near our house even though we were Catholic.
But one day, shortly after the arrest, my son was out walking in our neighborhood, which is a very nice neighborhood, and he came home with a swollen jaw. He heard someone call his name, and he stopped to see who it was. There was a carload of young boys, and one of them got out and punched my son in the face. Thankfully, they didn’t all get out and beat him to a pulp. But we knew who it was even though we couldn’t prove it.
That would almost be redundant, unless someone kicked him at the base of the skull.
“Send them to Catholic school”
Just be prepared to shell out big bucks to do so. My daughter is a HS freshman it costs close to 10k a year to send her there. It ain’t cheap. Mind you I’m not complaining. I would eat wood before I’d send my kids to a public school.
Wow! Well, I’m certainly not saying bullying doesn’t happen at a private or church school. A few months ago, 2 boys and a girl at the local Baptist high school actually killed another classmate, a girl, just because they didn’t like her. They lured her out to a remote place, beat her and shot her. Still, it’s probably less frequent.
“That would almost be redundant, unless someone kicked him at the base of the skull.”
I guess I don’t get what you are trying to say. What would be redundant?
I remember a vice-principal at our old high school who, when he even suspected that some kids might be ‘missing’ after lunch (if you know what I mean), he’d jump in his own car and go look for them! Sometimes he’d go downtown and see them walking along the street! Sooner or later, he’d come back with them and you just KNEW they were in big trouble!
Of course now-a-day, the kids probably would be taken to the police! Or the kids would call the police on the vice-principal! :(
I don’t know though, maybe not. But there are some kids who just think they can do whatever, and walk all over the teachers and principal!
The head snapping back by itself is enough to cause convulsion worthy damage. However, there are only limited areas of the head where one can be kicked to produce convulsions with minimal force, and one of these is the back of the neck.
The bottom line is that he didn’t need to be kicked, the shoving alone would likely do it. The likelihood of a kick hitting the “sweet spot” is not great.
Bunten said officers have not yet spoken to all the students involved and do not yet have permission from all of their parents. Some interviews with students and their parents were scheduled for Friday evening... Bunten said there is some indication of prior incidents involving the victim and at least one of the students...Thanks Darren McCarty.
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He happened to be black. The bullies, from what I gather, were not. (they used racial slurs)
It was those “white,upper middle class” bullies that did the deed.
Please pray for the boy.
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