I cannot wrap my head around this...

[one_voice]

Student dies after being assaulted inside high school in Wilmington, Del.

WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) --
A 16-year-old student has died after she was assaulted by several other students inside a high school bathroom in Wilmington, Delaware.

It happened at the Howard High School of Technology in the 400 block of East 12th Street on Thursday morning.

The name of the girl, who was a sophomore, has not been released.

No charges have been announced. Two girls and several witnesses are at the Wilmington Police Department being interviewed by detectives.

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The Action Cam was outside the school as medics performed CPR on the victim, who was taken on a stretcher to a waiting state police helicopter.

She was airlifted to A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, where she was pronounced dead.

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Students at the school told Action News reporter Chad Pradelli that the fight was over a boy, and that the girl was fighting with another girl in a bathroom when she was jumped.

Kayla Wilson says she was in a stall when the fight broke out.

"She was fighting a girl, and then that's when all these other girls started banking her -like jumping her - and she hit her head on the sink," Wilson said.

http://6abc.com/news/student-dies-after-being-assaulted-inside-del-school/1302232/

I have a friend whose daughter goes to school with the young lady that was beaten to death. How does something like this happen in our schools? I don't understand. I've been so upset all day over this.

My son posted this today on his fb..

This whole Howard thing has me reflecting... Maybe I'm speaking for myself. Maybe my generation will be too proud to admit it. But I honestly don't remember a day during my school years where I didn't have at least a tiny bit of worry that something awful or tragic was gonna happen that day. Not necessarily to me, just in general. Pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to be.

he's 25. Said he started feeling that way in about 8th grade. His friends started commenting saying they felt that way too. WTF. Our kids are going to school waiting for something tragic to happen. This has become the norm for them.

Something has to be done. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that a child was beaten to death in a dirty bathroom at school and no one helped her. It's braking my heart and infuriating at the same time.

[msongs]

1. high school bathrooms have always been the most dangerous places on any campus. out of sight, no

witnesses, easy for cowards to jump their victims

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Yeah, but when you gotta go ...

... where else can you light a cigarette, or a joint?

My school was pretty safe. No fights-to-the-death that I remember.

[metroins]

2. I went to school in, around and north of Baltimore city

Fights, stabbings, jumps, I didn't see gunfire, but heard about it. I know of two violent deaths.

What can we do about it?

I hate to bring in a RW talking point, but these kinds of problems begin at home, then spillover to the school.

You kick the kids out of school, then there's backlash, hiring officers in the school costs money, teachers aren't fight coaches.

I'm really not trying to argue with you, I'm venting myself at a problem that feels too big to solve. So please don't take this post as if I'm directing it at you, I'm just as frustrated at senseless deaths and violence.

[one_voice]

8. I graduated from high school in 1985

yeah I'm old. prior to that, I was 'kicked out' of school for fighting. My multi racial family wasn't accepted and I had to fight a lot of racism. But we fought with our hands/fists.

Even busing didn't have this kind of nonsense going on. Sure there were fights at first...but people jumped right in to break them up. Now, they're busy recording.

I remember once when I was in jr high a teacher was kicked down the steps. She was one of the 'mean' teachers; even still the students were besides themselves upset. They told who did it. There were lines that were not crossed.

A few years after I graduated high school I found out an English teacher I had was beaten within an inch of his life DURING class. No one, stopped it. They walked right in with bats and beat the holy hell out of him.

Parents are working more than ever trying to make ends meet. We don't have the sense of community that we once had. Extended family isn't around. There is so much that contributes to this. You don't want to write off the kids.

Part of me thinks if we hold the parents responsible maybe things will get better. Then I think what if the parents are doing the best they can.

I don't know. I just know I cried my heart out when this story broke. I know this school. I know kids that go there. My friends daughter is a cheerleader there. I've watched her cheer.

I know you weren't arguing with me. I've gone from being so fucking angry to crying today. It has to stop.

[In_The_Wind]

4. .

[HughBeaumont]

5. Fighting is awesome. Sometimes to solve problems, you just have to get into a fistfight.

Oh, it can also lead to hospitalization or death . . . because if there's one thing an Alpha does NOT want to hear, it's that he/she is not THE Alpha.

That's not a problem, is it?

We've learned absolutely NOTHING in centuries. NOTHING. Humans are inherently attracted to and commit violence and adults do absolutely nothing to stop it. They love watching and filming and getting into fights. It's part of our culture and it's never going to stop. You would think humans would abandon being angry fuckers with all there is to occupy their time, but it seems we're still too addicted to violence to stop.

[Octafish]

6. Something is very wrong when we are in Afghanistan War Year 15...

...and kids can't be safe in school at home.

As you son wrote, this is not how Democracy is supposed to be.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. That's horrible.

I will say this, I stayed the hell out of Jr HS and HS bathrooms at all costs! If I went, I went during class, which teachers usually didn't allow, but I was a goodie-two-shoes, so I always got a pass. Locker rooms were Hell on Earth too.

What a shame that people are so damn violent, that nowhere is really safe anymore.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. 16 year-young woman...

[ladyVet]

10. When all these TV shows, movies and video games are are around extolling the virtue of violence,

when the country fights endless wars against faceless threats, when hatred is taught in religious houses, what else should we expect except what our children learn at our knee?

Violence is no more a part of human nature than love is. We have the capacity to do enormous good, and also enormous evil. We chose which path we follow, not our genes. That's an excuse to turn away, to shrug it off and say, man will be man, nothing to be done. So sad.