Should teenage bullies be charged with a crime?

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People mean different things by bullying.

Clearly beating the shit out of a kid is an actual crime and kids can be tried as adults in many places for that, but often aren't if it happens to be in school. People will call that bullying and see at as a mild thing purely because of the situation it's happening in.

Social exclusion, harassment, mean words are more commonly what people mean by bullying.

[–]Antarchomachus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah agree with you jet. I think the OP is a bit extreme given the content of the video. Yes, that was an assault, but the victim got up and walked away relatively unharmed. The girl should be expelled for sure, but charging a kid as an adult makes no sense unless we are talking about a serious beating. I'm not sure that was even worth prosecuting, literally every male child gets into some sort of scuffle like that at school, its frightening to think of the amount of assault charges this would lead to.