(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Lynn, Mass.) – It’s disturbing news about violence and high schoolers.
In Lynn, Mass., dozens of students are in trouble. They were involved in a fight that was caught on tape and then posted online.
It’s not just those who were fighting that were disciplined, either.
Certainly, fights are not uncommon at schools or even outside them, but this fight involved over 30 students being punished, many of them suspended for doing nothing to stop the fight.
The pushing, shoving, punching and screaming were caught on camera. That has led to criminal charges against two Lynn English High School girls and suspensions for a few dozen others, many of them watching and not intervening.
They were seen standing around on the video, identified by school administrators.
Among them was freshman Kenny Ith.
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He does not think he should have been punished, suspended for a day, just because he didn't do anything to stop the fight.
But Lynn’s mayor, Judith Flanagan Kennedy, disagrees.
The eight minute long fight was posted on YouTube and has been viewed by over 1,000 people.
One of the girl's faces a felony charge because you can see in the video she smashes the other girl's head into a stone wall at a playground a few blocks from school.
Neither girl was seriously hurt, but, to the mayor, that's not the point.
Even though it did not happen on school grounds, it started here and legally that is an uninterrupted chain of events so school punishment would apply against the students.
