Belleville School Bus Incident

This is some what in response to the Culture Clash Blog that was posted in week 3. I couldn’t agree more with how people say American’s are hated because of stupid, arrogant, lazy, and uneducated we are. I feel however that a large part of it has to do with the way parents raise their children today.

I’m sure most of you have heard about the Bellville school bus incident, if not then here’s a little rundown. An over crowded school bus filled with high school students was on their way either too or from school until a fight broke out between two students. A 17 year old kid was trying to find a seat on the bus, but no one would let him sit down with them. Finally he found an open seat and decided to sit in that seat. The kid he sat next to, which I think was 15 years old, started punching the 17 year old and continued to pretty much beat the crap out of him. A majority of the kids on the bus began to encourage and cheer on the fight. The bus driver has no real comment thus far about why he didn’t make too much of an attempt to stop the fight. After the fight was stopped, approximately 5 minutes later the 15 year old boy began to beat up the 17 year old once again and continued to punch him directly in the face. Finally the fight was broken up by a student on the bus. Every student on the bus who was caught by the surveillance camera on the bus who were cheering and encouraging the fight was suspended. The 15 year old boy who started the fight was expelled. And what’s interesting about this entire incident is how the 17 year old boy who got beat up, never once tried to stop the kid from beating him up.

Police say the fight may have occurred because of race, yet there were 8 other white kids on the bus and nothing bad to them. Personally I think this terrible incident happened due to a lack of parenting and discipline. I don’t know what could ever make someone do something like this other than parents not taking the time to educate their children on what’s right and wrong, along with how things to this nature can affect their futures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjr44CgJy7c
Here is the video, hopefully I did this right.