What do you think about this article? I personally think it's childish and severely lacking in maturity. What is happening to the youth of today. It's bad enough for guys to be participating in this kind of behavior.....but girls???
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Attack on Teen at Game Replayed on Facebook
2 Charged in Silver Spring Incident
By Jenna Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 2, 2009
First, there was a fight during the third quarter of a high school football game in Silver Spring: Two teenage girls came barreling toward the pom squad leader, pushing her to the ground and hitting and kicking her, yelling something about a boy.
Within hours, a dark and blurry video of Friday night's fight was posted on Facebook, soliciting line after line of "LOL" and "hahaha" comments. The attack was first reported by WJLA (Channel 7), which aired parts of the video.
On Wednesday, Montgomery County police charged the two teens with second-degree assault, said police spokeswoman Lucille Baur. The girls are 16 and 17 and have been charged as juveniles.
That same day, the 17-year-old victim returned to classes at John F. Kennedy High School, shaken and worried that her classmates would make fun of her.
"People always think you did something wrong, even when you are the victim," said her mother, Cardelia Maupin.
Now officials at Kennedy High are trying to figure out who posted the video, which is no longer on Facebook, and are reviewing security procedures for home football games. On Thursday night, Principal Thomas Anderson hosted a meeting for parents at the school.
Anderson said this was the first time in at least a decade that there was a fight during a football game. The night of the fight, Kennedy High was playing Wheaton High at home, and the stadium was adequately staffed with school administrators, teachers and police officers, he said.
"Unfortunately, this is one of those situations that took on a life of its own very quickly," he said. "These situations come up. We are not in crisis mode."
In 2005, a 15-year-old girl from Rockville was fatally stabbed in the parking lot at James Hubert Blake High School in northeastern Montgomery County after a Friday night football game. Two weeks later, a 17-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting during a football game between Annapolis and Old Mill high schools in Anne Arundel County.
The exact cause of Friday's fight probably won't be pinpointed until a mediation session at the school, Maupin said, but a boy appears to be at the core of it.
Maupin usually attends the football games to watch her daughter perform with the pom squad, but she skipped this one because "you know teenagers -- they are so embarrassed by their parents. She asked me not to go." Then came a panicked call from her daughter about 8:30 p.m., saying a group of girls was trying to hurt her.
Maupin rushed to the stadium. The fight had ended when adults intervened, but her daughter had a swollen face and a knot on her head and was complaining of a headache, she said. Hospital exams showed no internal injuries.
They decided to go to bed, thinking that things would be better in the morning. But early Saturday, her daughter got a call from a friend telling her to check Facebook.
Maupin watched the video in horror: Two girls aggressively striding toward her daughter, confusion in the crowd as the fight moves to the ground.
"It's this horrible vision in my head," Maupin said. "Where were the people who could have helped her?"
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Well..When I was in high school, every month there was some sorta "girl drama" going down. I was never apart of crap like that, because I could never understand why people would want to fight over such things. Your right, it is childish and immature and just down right embarrassing for these girls to be fighting each other over a guy. In some cases it wasn't even about a guy, it was sometimes about something another girl said about someone.22% Voted for by Jessa M., Ns243cxcvi.
I see it as girls like that searching for attention, wanting to stick out and make themselves known. Now I don't doubt at all that these girls are actually angry and upset about something thats happened. But they must have something in there head telling them that fighting about it is not the right way to go about resolving it.
All that said, I also don't think there is ever going to be a major change in the way high school girls are and can be. It has a lot to do with female hormones which lead to flaring emotions.
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What's happening to the youth of today? We're getting better.Re-add content?22% Voted for by NoeL-, rozencrantz.
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One thing that really bothered me"It's bad enough for guys to be participating in this kind of behavior.....but girls???"Voted for by GinryuStargazer.
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Not a good mixLiberties.. liberties..Voted for by dj1z4.
when competition and pride becomes the norm
when liberties allows it
this what happens.. -
Times have changed.I'm a teenager and I see. We've come into what I like to call the Age of Ego. It's a period in which more and more people come out to massage other people's egos. Humanists with their talk of "you're a god" (no offense, but I think if we were gods we wouldn't have much of these problems today), "feel good religion" which downplays any call for stern examination into ourselves, and the lives of countless parents out there who work too many hours and replace love for their children with gifts... until the children are spoiled and think they're entitled to whatever they want. Trust me, this has been coming for a long time and yet few people have seen it coming. Teenagers are starved for attention from their parents and replace that attention with premarital sex and gangs. That's how those "random" outbreaks in the articles happened. This started back when your parents were kids and the trend has slowly been growing out of control.Voted for by UnluckySeiko.
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This is High School, why are we surprised?I'm in high school myself, and I see things like this all the time. I overhear the cheerleaders bickering about who likes who and whatnot, and it almost always results in backstabbing buffoonery.Voted for by DeceasedInBathory.
Youth is like this, and in high school, we are all still trying to figure out who we are, because quite frankly, intelligence is frowned upon among my peers, so it seems that maturity grinds to a halt. -
What On Earth Do You Mean?This is a simple fight, no more than that. Statistics actually show that youth prosecuted for violent crimes in the U.S has decreased significantly over the last 15 years.Voted for by HopelessDreams.
Sure these people should be maturing but the reality is that a good portion of our population doesn't mature, and that goes for any generation, not just ours. Society has actually come a long way since the racist lynchings, etc. But if you take note of the news stories, count how many positive news stories there are vs. how many negative there are. I bet you'll find an interesting ratio.
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