Cell Phone Video Captures Fight at Local Middle School
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cell phone video inside a Ranson Middle School classroom captures a fight between two seventh graders.
Now, the family of the girl who appears to be attacked in the video says the school did not do enough to prevent it.
“I been saying this from day one: it’s going to escalate,” said Jerri Fetherson.
Her daughter seems to stand still while the other child begins throwing punches in the video.
She says she and her sister have reported bullying to Ranson Middle School for eight months.
“It’s been going on for too long, and everybody’s know,n and they haven’t done anything,” said Jerri Fetherson.
After the fight last Tuesday, Fetherson says the district suspended her daughter, not the one who began throwing punches. CMS would not confirm.
“We’re still not getting results,” said the child’s aunt, Johnnie Fetherson. “It’s like we’re turning and hitting walls.”
Documents show the Fethersons reported bullying claims.
In January, they say they filed a CMS police report when a boy hit the 12-year-old in the head with a backpack on the bus.
They say the school administration moved the girl to a different school bus in April, but no punishment for the accused bullies.
“Don’t you have alternative schools, suspension?” said Johnnie Fetherson.
Now that they’ve witnessed the violence
Through the cell phone footage, they are sending a message.
“Everybody that has a child that goes to Ranson Middle School needs to talk to they children every day about being bullied and knowing someone who is being bullied,” said Jerri Fetherson.
