The kid refusing to fight back is not that unusual.  My oldest son went through this exact same thing, only nothing ever changed because no video to prove his story.  In fact, I am surprised they aren't going after the kid filming since filming in bathrooms is a big no-no and then still suspend the kid getting his butt handed to him for participating in the fight.

Nickcole Whitfield, of Wilkinsburg, said her son, Aisa, 13, attends Wilkinsburg Middle School.

Well there's your answer to why he gets the shiat kicked out of him all the time.

Police have not found the boy, and Coleman is urging his family to turn him into a newt.

Teknowaffle: Nickcole Whitfield, of Wilkinsburg, said her son, Aisa, 13, attends Wilkinsburg Middle School.

Well there's your answer to why he gets the shiat kicked out of him all the time.

Anyone could tell that is a geeky/Aspergers kind of name.  Might as well have named him "Beat me."

Wilkinsburg? Say no more.

Pocket Ninja: I think our society would benefit enormously if we implemented a national policy requiring the ritual sacrifice on television of one local news reporter per day.

Yeah, because opening a portal to Hell through which can pour Daemons would be such an improvement, when the laws of physics and morality are thrown aside and we're all shouting and killing and revelling in joy.

/Ia Ia

Snort: Teknowaffle: Nickcole Whitfield, of Wilkinsburg, said her son, Aisa, 13, attends Wilkinsburg Middle School.

Well there's your answer to why he gets the shiat kicked out of him all the time.

Anyone could tell that is a geeky/Aspergers kind of name.  Might as well have named him "Beat me."

Maybe the bully's name is Chaprelle, and he wants to divert attention.

...and the kid that refused to fight back will probably still be suspended for fighting.

I went to a predominantly white school and stuff like this was always happening.  The only thing that changed is that everyone has a cell phone recording it, and parents need another reason to be outraged for the day.

I hate watching this because I couldn't stomach it if it happened to my son.  If it did, I'd have to do the same to the other boy's father (for raising such an asshole) and then pour sulfuric acid down his gullet.

Would have been less horrific if he fought back.

I got news for you kid, if you lay down and take it, every asshole in school is going to pound the shiat out of you. Why? Because you allow it to happen. You need to man up and stop being such a farking little pussy. If the bullies know you're going to go apeshiat on them if they fark with you, they will leave you alone. If you lay down with your ass in the air your going to get raped in it. You can be the victim or you can farking man up and stop getting your ass beat. Yes, the kid that did it should be put in jail, and expelled, and the kids that just sat there filming it should get suspended for just watching and not helping you, but in the end, you are by yourself. Walk softly, don't fark with people, go about your business, but make it clear that you won't stand for people to do this, and will fight back. Otherwise, you're destined to be a human punching bag.

/my 2 cents.

you MUST teach your kids to fight back!  if you dont stand up for yourself, its going to happen again and again

In before the "Well, that sure as shiat never happened to me in school! I dealt with my bullies by giving them a proper ass-kicking!" Oh wait.

A Shambling Mound: Speaking strictly from my own experiences in middle and high school, the only thing that prevented further harassment from the fighting types was a concerted effort on my part to hurt them badly enough the first time that consideration was required before engaging in additional physical violence.  Not sayin' I didn't get my ass kicked, because I did. Just sayin' I usually only got my ass kicked once.

No intervention required on the part of parents, school administration or the police.

Pocket Ninja: I think our society would benefit enormously if we implemented a national policy requiring the ritual sacrifice on television of one local news reporter per day.

But it must be in a gladiatorial fashion.

/Blood for the Blood God

Not fighting back is a sign of intelligence, as walking away probably keeps him from getting seriously hurt by this gang of canadians. Unfortunately for this poor soul, the system forces him to endure the agression for years and years.  Seriously, bullied kids have it worst than most adults.  Once you grow up you can complain, change jobs, sue, threaten to sue etc, etc.

/not racist, but I knew they were before I clicked the link
/maybe a little racist

FTA: There's other ways you can settle stuff, by talking, trying to talk it out,"

Is the U.N. running the school?

The school needs to step in and take swift and appropriate action...they need to ban recordings within the school.

Ever notice in these Fark threads, you never find a story where someone got their ass beat and that was the end of it? There's always some made-up revenge story where they came out on top.

The Angry Hand of God: I went to a predominantly white school and stuff like this was always happening.  The only thing that changed is that everyone has a cell phone recording it, and parents need another reason to be outraged for the day.

This.  I also went to a predominantly white school (one black kid in the 12 years I attended school) and fights happened about every other week, boys and girls.  The girls laid a harder beatdown the boys did, usually.

Knucklepopper: In before the "Well, that sure as shiat never happened to me in school! I dealt with my bullies by giving them a proper ass-kicking!" Oh wait.

Yes, because every kid ever bullied just stood there and took it.  Not one kid ever fought back. Ever.

Not to be mr tough guy... but that kid doing the beating will continue to do the same thing only as he grows into a man will actually be capable of REAL damage...     I vote for a bullet to the head to save everyone abuse and time and money.

blueknight: you MUST teach your kids to fight back!  if you dont stand up for yourself, its going to happen again and again

Really, why would ANY parent tell their kid it is O.K. to just stand there and take a beating?  That's stupid.  If he'd stood up for himself I'd say he'd have been a pretty fair match for the punk that started it.

Psycoholic_Slag: Knucklepopper: In before the "Well, that sure as shiat never happened to me in school! I dealt with my bullies by giving them a proper ass-kicking!" Oh wait.

Yes, because every kid ever bullied just stood there and took it.  Not one kid ever fought back. Ever.

What about that one time?

A few points that are consistent in every bullying case I've ever seen:
1. The parents of the kid that threw the punches are just as disgusting and vile as the bully himself.  If you wonder where he learned his craft from, it's his parents.
2. Nancy boy needs to learn to stick up for himself.  He's only proven that he can take a beating.  Get some aikido/jujitsu lessons.  Twice the damage, half the effort.  When your attacker is recovering from compound fractures, he'll be reminded to not fark with you again.
3. Rest assured, the school will do one of two things:  Ignore the situation completely, or punish the wrong child.

Snarfangel: Psycoholic_Slag: Knucklepopper: In before the "Well, that sure as shiat never happened to me in school! I dealt with my bullies by giving them a proper ass-kicking!" Oh wait.

Yes, because every kid ever bullied just stood there and took it.  Not one kid ever fought back. Ever.

What about that one time?

This is Fark. There is no "one time." This is an utter den of brooding Chuck Norris' and gladiatorial man-sweat. These Internet warriors have been killers since kindergarten. Killers! So you just go be a pussy somewhere else!

Now everyone knows that bully can't throw a punch. What a kitty kat...

Young Aisa should take comfort in knowing that he can take the douche bag's best shots, and not go down. Kid tries it again, Aisa kicks his ass, unless like most bullies he has a back up crew of douche bags ready to beat down a lone child.

Seriously. I got my ass kicked all the time. I was teased and harassed for being a fat kid, smart, and nerdy. (Yes, the anime and video games might have helped). I couldn't fight back because the other kids were fit and much faster. They'd punch me and run off, and then laugh when I'd give chase.

Got fed up. Put cayenne pepper in a little container, got off the bus first, turned around and threw the pepper in the face of my long-time assailant, and then beat his ass while he was stuck in the doorway. First time I ever won a fight. It was also, coincidentally, the last time I ever *had* to fight. The assholes left me alone after that. I couldn't best them with physical prowess, so I had to even the odds and fight dirty.

Of course, this was 1993. It was a different time.

Charles.

blatz514: I assume it started something like this?

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/but luckily didn't end that way

Whenever someone blows smoke in my face, I think, "Hey, free cigarettes."

A Shambling Mound: I was not Rambo delivering righteous beat-downs to the big bad bullies. I was a scrawny little dork biting, scratching, kicking and generally just trying to make them work for it. I can't say I've ever "won" a fight, but most of the kids that picked fights with me didn't do it again. To be fair though I don't think anyone wins a fight, either you get beat up or you're a barely evolved ape that has to hit people to feel better. No winners there.

It's been a few years, but I'm pretty sure this was the basic premise to Call of the Wild.

CygnusDarius: Pocket Ninja: I think our society would benefit enormously if we implemented a national policy requiring the ritual sacrifice on television of one local news reporter per day.

But it must be in a gladiatorial fashion.

/Blood for the Blood God

Stabs CygnusDarius.  Runs off to battle somewhere else.

/The blood god doesn't care who or how, as long as the blood flows.

JRoo: Cold_Sassy: blueknight: you MUST teach your kids to fight back!  if you dont stand up for yourself, its going to happen again and again

Really, why would ANY parent tell their kid it is O.K. to just stand there and take a beating?  That's stupid.  If he'd stood up for himself I'd say he'd have been a pretty fair match for the punk that started it.

He should settle it the way Americans are supposed to. With a gun.

Roo, this isn't about guns, OK?

Psycoholic_Slag: Knucklepopper: In before the "Well, that sure as shiat never happened to me in school! I dealt with my bullies by giving them a proper ass-kicking!" Oh wait.

Yes, because every kid ever bullied just stood there and took it.  Not one kid ever fought back. Ever.

I'm proof that some do stand up. It can just take time.

I was bullied pretty consistently from age 7 through my sophomore year of high school. Same guy. Teachers never intervened, and my mom's answer was always to ignore it. He was always taller than I was, mean as a rattlesnake and dumb as a hammer.

Well, it continued to high school. Early sophomore year, the school football coach saw me working out some frustrations on a punching bag, and invited me to try out for the school boxing club. I made the squad. Varsity. I may not have the fastest footwork in the world or the fastest hands, but I can hit like a Mack truck.

May of that year, my bully made his reappearance. We'd been in different classes all year, I hadn't seen him in about four months. He cornered me in the weight room, and demanded twenty bucks or he'd kick my ass.

Something snapped in my head. I told him to go ahead if he wanted, but he wasn't getting my twenty. I was saving up to go to Jamboree that summer- I needed that 20.

He hit me once- a crap shot that hit right where neck meets shoulder. I hit him twice. One was a straight shot to the gut, the other at the angle of the jaw. I heard a crack.

I found out later, much later, that I gave him a hairline jaw fracture. Making it better, he got expelled the next day- the school's discipline board was meeting to expel him for drug possession/dealing and theft.

Do many stand up? No. This one did, though.

Quigs: Ever notice in these Fark threads, you never find a story where someone got their ass beat and that was the end of it? There's always some made-up revenge story where they came out on top.

It's probably safe to assume everyone else on fark just got beat up regularly and that's the end of the story.

/I went to a elementary school in a low-income area with abut 60% minority population and I struggle to recall any incidents of "bullying" like i see in TV and PSAs... fights but not usually bullying. I remember generally getting along with people. Maybe we were too young at that point.
//They did call the cops one time when a homeless dude stuck his dick through the chainlink fence on the playground. that's all I got.

ChopperCharles: Seriously. I got my ass kicked all the time. I was teased and harassed for being a fat kid, smart, and nerdy. (Yes, the anime and video games might have helped). I couldn't fight back because the other kids were fit and much faster. They'd punch me and run off, and then laugh when I'd give chase.

Got fed up. Put cayenne pepper in a little container, got off the bus first, turned around and threw the pepper in the face of my long-time assailant, and then beat his ass while he was stuck in the doorway. First time I ever won a fight. It was also, coincidentally, the last time I ever *had* to fight. The assholes left me alone after that. I couldn't best them with physical prowess, so I had to even the odds and fight dirty.

Of course, this was 1993. It was a different time.

Charles.

Yeah, I was getting the crap beat out of me by a kid daily too. My uncle told me to walk around with my Algebra book all day, and the first time I saw him, just whack him in the face with it as hard as I could. That one hit farked him up because he was looking into his locker when it came. Never a problem after that.

These days I'd be in jail, I guess.

Teknowaffle:

Nickcole Whitfield, of Wilkinsburg, said her son, Aisa, 13, attends Wilkinsburg Middle School.

Well there's your answer to why he gets the shiat kicked out of him all the time.

Should they have named him Sue?

waterrockets: ChopperCharles: Seriously. I got my ass kicked all the time. I was teased and harassed for being a fat kid, smart, and nerdy. (Yes, the anime and video games might have helped). I couldn't fight back because the other kids were fit and much faster. They'd punch me and run off, and then laugh when I'd give chase.

Got fed up. Put cayenne pepper in a little container, got off the bus first, turned around and threw the pepper in the face of my long-time assailant, and then beat his ass while he was stuck in the doorway. First time I ever won a fight. It was also, coincidentally, the last time I ever *had* to fight. The assholes left me alone after that. I couldn't best them with physical prowess, so I had to even the odds and fight dirty.

Of course, this was 1993. It was a different time.

Charles.

Yeah, I was getting the crap beat out of me by a kid daily too. My uncle told me to walk around with my Algebra book all day, and the first time I saw him, just whack him in the face with it as hard as I could. That one hit farked him up because he was looking into his locker when it came. Never a problem after that.

These days I'd be in jail, I guess.

Mace and sucker punching, sounds like good police fighting technique there.