Parents are outraged over footage of a fifth-grade girl punching a 7-year-old boy on a school bus in Michigan earlier this month.
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WNDU TV reported. The March 4 incident between students at Ballard Elementary School occurred on Niles’ “afternoon route home.” Niles is located in the southwest corner of Michigan, about a 30-minute drive from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
WSBT said the two-minute video shows both students shouting profanities at each other, with the boy attempting to knock the phone out of the girl’s hand, before the girl jumps up and grabs the boy. He pointed out that he had hit her two or three times.
After an argument ensued, the girl punched the boy again for about eight to nine seconds, according to WSBT.
WNDU said the video showed the girl “punching the small, defenseless male student over 18 times in the head.”
WSBT said multiple parents have raised concerns about their children’s safety, with some claiming other children were also involved in altercations with the girl in question.
WNDU said it reached out to people believed to be the parents of the two children, but the only response was from the girls’ father, who said, “I don’t want to talk to you.” WBND-LD reported The father said his daughter had been expelled from school.
Niles Community Schools Superintendent Daniel Applegate said there were two adults on the bus at the time of the incident, including an experienced driver who was helping the first-time driver with directions and directions to the bus stop. However, he said he did not understand what was happening. “This is due to the overall noise inside the bus and the focus on routes and drop-offs,” WSBT said.
Brittany Ottinger told WNDU that her son was sitting next to the boy the girl was hitting, and that her son’s “head was pushed up against the window,” and he later suffered a bruise to his eye.
“He was scared to go back to school,” Oettinger added to WNDU, adding that he was not informed of the incident until several days later.
Ottinger also told WNDU, “I didn’t want to send my son back to school, but I had no other choice. And as a mother, I feel bad for encouraging my son to go back to school.”
Niles Police are investigating the incident and are working with the bus garage and school system, WNDU added.
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Parents met Wednesday to talk about the incident and say bullying is rampant at the school and is not being addressed, WBND reported.
According to the station, TJ Camp, the father of the boy who was repeatedly punched by the girl, said his children have no plans to return to Ballard Elementary School, that the administration’s announcement is not true, and that the family is considering legal options. Stated.
“I was horrified by what I saw,” Camp said, according to WBND. “The school informed me that there were two adults, one driver, and one monitor on the bus. As you can see in the video, nothing was done to stop the attack on my child. It was.”
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