Scottsdale, AZ – A pair of brothers beat up a fellow middle school student while the children were riding on the school bus. Witnesses to what is being called a bullying incident whipped out their cell phones not to call for help but to capture the bus fight on video. Parker Brockman was beaten by the two other boys after they reportedly harassed him on the way home from Sunrise Middle School, according KNXV-TV.
The bus driver eventually pulled over to stop the fight but not until after multiple punches had been thrown. The seventh grade victim claims that the brothers insulted and cursed at him before the altercation became physical, the New York Daily News reports.
Parker Brockman had this to say about the alleged bullying ordeal:
“He was literally telling me to punch him the whole time. After a while I swung a few punches. They were basically on top of me trying to punch me face.”
Brockman’s mother, Tiffany Hunter, said she knew something was wrong with her son when he came home from school, but he initially did not tell her about the fight on the bus. Once the seventh grade student came clean to his mother about what had happened, the upset mother noted her son is a frequent target for bullies. She claims that the brothers, who are accused of instigating the fight, are known as bullies by other local parents.
Hunter had this to say during an interview with KNXV-TV:
“This never would’ve happened if they were aware of the fact that these boys have been picking on other people. He [her son] tries to be a tough guy. He doesn’t back down.”
Sunrise Middle School has reportedly suspended the two brothers from both attending class and riding the bus.
smh I didn't want to watch this…. and I didn't but I support the victims of bullying, young and old…. :/
The ppl that is doing the bullying needs to be expelled an much more they need to bring back ass whipping in school I may have not been in school while that was happening but u heard less about ppl bullying
The PARENTS need to stop turning a blind eye and saying things like "boys will be boys". NO, pay attention to your kids and figure out what the HELL makes them act like this! I can't imagine my boys being so mean! I've noticed that usually the parents of the bullies don't really care.
I am a big time supporter of the victims of bullies.
Assault is Assault!
You people don't realize that expelling a student is like giving him an extra vacation from school. The boys should still have to attend school (which is required by law), their parents should have to bring them and pick them up in order for them to be kept off the bus. They should be restricted to a detention room when not actually in class during the time they would normally have been expelled for. And the parents should have to pay for the person having to monitor them (much like when you pay for a flight attendant to watch after a young child on a flight). If this causes an inconvenience for the parents, then perhaps they should have taken a better interest in their child's behavior, because you can not tell me this is the first they have heard about it.
I support all the victims of bullying!!! I believe that the two boys who did it should be expelled !!
What in the world is wrong with the bus driver? I would have stopped immediately and stopped the punching! My son was a victim of bullying in Middle School and highschool and he still carries anger inside–it affects kids for life! He is now 25 and still has nightmares and angry outbursts about it.The school faculty needs to stay on top of this! My son was on suicide watch for a short period of time–SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE! If students start fights on bus they should be thrown off bus for remainder of school year–let the parents get them to school! If they work I am sure it will be hard for them to get them to school EVERYDAY!
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No they need to be kicked out of the school and make their parents have to get them into another school. We r to lenient these days and it's getting out of hand. That poor kid and others will still have to go to school with those boys for years and the school and parents will turn blind eyes again.
There was a time when students would basically have to do community service for the school when caught breaking rules (pounding erasers, washing the chalk board etc). Instead of giving them more free time to get intotrouble, they should have to go to school in ISS (in school suspension) and be made to clean or do some other chore to ingrain the fact that there are real consequences to their actions.
Some schools have alternative schools for trouble making students like these should be in these. But this sounds like an ongoing problem is it happening only on the bus? Might be worth checking into? These youngsters are headed for juvenile detention or prison in their later years .
Some schools have alternative schools for trouble making students like these should be in these. But this sounds like an ongoing problem is it happening only on the bus? Might be worth checking into? These youngsters are headed for juvenile detention or prison in their later years .
i remember at one school we had saturday detention and that usually ment cleaning the stadium after friday games. then another school was iss. then another u were to be part of the janitor chain gang
exactly! kids don't fear getting into trouble anymore because they arent being punished. Though i dont agree with paddling i do believe the schools should stand their ground.
exactly! kids don't fear getting into trouble anymore because they arent being punished. Though i dont agree with paddling i do believe the schools should stand their ground.
I think every school bus needs an assistant on it; Bus drivers are not able to take care of the safety of the kids while driving; They need help; Why can't a teacher a day from each school be assigned to ride a week each year; If they fail to do this; they have to get subs to do it! and take out of thier pay; Well that way they can have a free ride to school also!
Nip it in the bud!
Enough is enough I was bullied in school and I'm a girl and now 47 when is it going to STOP
Don't expel them send THIER a– to boot camp
Maybe the should make them take a trip to the prison like on the show Beyond Scared Straight
I believe there should be cameras on the buses. The minute there is a ruckus the bus driver pulls over and puts the trouble makers in the front seats and the other students move back. My father use to drive bus many years ago and he would pull over give them one warning if he had to speak to them again they got dropped off and had to walk home. Keep a list of the trouble makers. Send it to the principals office. Don't let them stay home with their tvs and games. Make them sit in the office and do the homework.
The also need to talk to all the students that took out their cell phones just to film it, instead of requesting help. Also the driver should have pulled over a lot sooner than indicated, unless it was not safe to do so.
hell yes let them get their own ways to school not to ride the bus thats not in control…what the driver afraid of the kids?? i bet he is
thats right i agree totally…stopo the bullshit on the buses, some kids do want to learn while others dont..not my problem til it hits my son…then grab your ass
Chantal Roberts i agree with you but the schools are afraid of the parents …i see this is our schools
I agree, that's what happened when my son was beat up by two brothers and I went to report it to the police. They said, "Boys will be boys" so I told the police, "Well, make sure you note this because he's getting into Karate tomorrow and when the kids end up with broken jaws, remember what you just told me…I will not be responsible for his actions…." LOL
Why burden the teachers, they have enough going on. Why not have the unemployed go on, or those getting welfare checks? Just do a background check on them, and put their rears in the bus in the mornings. We're paying them anyways…or the disabled. There are some disabled people who can just sit all day… Just sayin…
Throw them in juvenile detention and after they are beaten a few times maybe they wont to it again. I also think parents need to be charged with a crime if their kids are repeat offenders they've Bern informed and they've done nothing about it. Accountability that's the answer.
I have no patience for ignorance!
Sending them to alternative schools for punishment is like putting them in with other bullies where they make friends with other bad kids. I think they should be publicly humiliated like they did to the kids they beat up. I'm not saying violence, I'm proposing them wearing a sandwich sign admitting they are bullies and victimized an innocent kid. Let them see how it feels to be singled out. Turning the tables on "any behavior" teaches people of all ages good lessons. Just my humble opinion.
send their little shits to juvenile jail.
That would help! But the staff has already been through secruity checks, etc. (Or at least should have been) and it is their school; and they also know the children! One week a year would not hurt any teacher or asst. teacher as they could do paper work which they complain about all the time while riding the bus!!
i agree… i remember hearing something about a judge ordering a parent to attend the entire school day with their child… parent had to miss work, etc… i kind of like that idea… or saturday detention… or iss classrooms…make the offenders janitorial cleaning staff… just letting them stay home from school does nothing to punish them…
Detention is not going to help cuz 9 out of 10 times there's is always a student(s) asleep in detention best thing is give them an old fashion beating with a good leather belt an send their asses to juvenile
Put them off the bus for the rest of the year. The parents of these 2 boys should be ordered to attend diversity training every weekend for the total of 32 hours WITH the boys. They have to take a test and PASS it with a score of 90% or they take it again. The only way to stop bullying is education. These boys didn't just happen to be bullies, they learned it somewhere.
Kids sometimes just need to be told what their limits are. They grow up thinking it's ok to get in another kid's face because that's what they do with their brothers and sisters and nobody explains personal space. And some of them need to be told that you don't hit anyone ever. They see it all the time at home and on TV and they think it's ok. Kids aren't stupid, they can learn, and empathy and kindness really needs to be taught.
Kids sometimes just need to be told what their limits are. They grow up thinking it's ok to get in another kid's face because that's what they do with their brothers and sisters and nobody explains personal space. And some of them need to be told that you don't hit anyone ever. They see it all the time at home and on TV and they think it's ok. Kids aren't stupid, they can learn, and empathy and kindness really needs to be taught.
Sure…two on one. That's a real fair fight. Geez! What's wrong with kids AND their PARENTS these days? Is this really what you want your kid to be like? Another 5 years and you'll be visiting them in jail!
Sure…two on one. That's a real fair fight. Geez! What's wrong with kids AND their PARENTS these days? Is this really what you want your kid to be like? Another 5 years and you'll be visiting them in jail!
yea i know they are. I had a conversation about this with a classmate and in the past if a student did poorly then.it was the students fault, but now the parents blame the teacher despite the fact that its 1 teacher for every 150-200 kids. ofcourse if a school were to try and implement some discipline
then the parents get pissed off…. its really sad.
makes you wonder what kind of parents those boys have…
I agree with Teri Orlando, teachers have more than just grading papers to be responsible for. I would much rather the use of retired officers to be placed on the bus, or unemplyed persons with some security background…someone who can handle a situation with a firm authority, not physical correction…ei spankings, but with the persona and confidence necessary to hanle this kind of things on the bus so the driver can pay attention to the road.
I agree, they should be removed from the bus and I am sure they learned it from somewhere, possibly from home or some other family relative. I think th diversity training is an excellent idea, forcing the parents to become involved with their kids. I also think there should be some mandated family counseling for those bullying kids to find out why they felt the need to do this.
What I'm wondering is what is going on in the home of the brothers that makes them act out like this. What are the adults in their lives doing to these boys to destroy their psychological makeup so badly?
For first time offenders or those getting caught for the first time shouldn't be placed into juvenile detention. I think the diversity training is an excellent idea, as mentioned by Dian Culp from above, forcing the parents to become involved with their kids. I also think there should be some mandated family counseling for those bullying kids to find out why they felt the need to do this. But the second time absolutely, juvenile detention would be warranted. Schools and school busess shoul all have audio and video running each time they are in use.
yes. but also send a copy of that list to the principal or dean of discipline and the police. parents also need to be involved and the violators should have to write a formal letter of apology to their victims before being allowed back in school. teachers should not record the acceptance of assignments due while students are suspended even though the students must still complete them. the assignments must be turned in but not recorded in the gradebook so that the student's grades will suffer. this will send a really strong message to would-be bullies. second offense should be expulsion followed immediately by arrest and trial in criminal court instead of family court.
I think the bullies should be kicked out of school and sent to a detention center. I was bullied when in junior high and and after taking so much of mostly verbal abuse from 3 particular girls, I was pushed into one of the girls during PE class and I actually became so angry and fought back and don't remember the fight. Amazingly, no one ever bothered me again. It's a scary thing when you get so angry you lose your memory how much more harm would I have done if the teacher hadn't stopped the fight?
Evidently these boys have a reputation and have targeted multiple students. I would hope that the parents have been contacted and evaluated themselves (are they promoting this behavior in their kids?) – and that the kids have been receiving counseling. They should absolutely lose their bus privileges, they should receive detention (which not only punishes them but gives the other kids time to be safely away before the troublemakers are let loose), the teachers should all be aware and watchful of these boys behavior at all times on school property. The entire school body should have instruction/counseling (in classes or in assembly) about bullying – what it is, what causes kids to do it , the harmful effects it has on others, what classmates should do if they witness it… It's really important that ALL these things are done in the schools – especially in elementary and Jr High levels so that the kids grow up with this information and having it be reinforced.
I think the victims mother needs to go to the police and have these bullies arrested for assault. They need to learn their lesson. Obviously, by others coming forward it means it has happened before. The bus driver "Shame on you" for allowing it to go on as long as it did. Once there was any hitting the bus driver should have pulled over immediately. I think the bus company needs to train their employees better on how to react to situations. Now, when it comes down to it there has to be a reason for being a bully. Are there issues going on outside of the school that child protective services has to get involved. Or is something going on at school.
I thought maybe the teachers would care what happened on the school bus! You donot quite being a police officer after you get off work nor a nurse or a school prin. their jobs go on! So does the school system : BElive me I know : I was there for 17 years!!
One week a year would help everone and they are already on pay roll; THey have PE time; Computer time, Planning time: Teachers work days, Lib. Time; Come on !
Chicago teachers earn 71/m a year! That is not hey!!
Boot camp give them a chance their kids and need to be taught over and in no way am I saying ignore it, that's been the problem or this wouldn't be an issue!
The fact that it was 2 on 1 just shows how brave these brothers are. Put them in YDC for a while so they can really show off their powers.
Is there anything that can be done in Oklahoma? My little brother was beaten up on the bus and its on tape. The other boy has been bullying him in various ways for years. Idk what to do considering the school, and the parents aren't preventing it.