Female HS Student Is Physically Assaulted
by a Male Classmate; School Board Punishes
Them Both
Red State,
by
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/26/2025 11:38:48 PM
On March 25, at a high school in Katy, TX, a teenage girl named Brooklynn Gianfrancesco was assaulted by a male classmate who, according to reports, had been harassing her for some time:
Viral video from inside the Taylor High School in Katy shows the moment a teenage boy slaps a girl in the face as they stand in the front of the class last month, shocking everyone.
The girl points out what had just happened to the teacher, who stands frozen. The girl then takes a swing at the boy, who had been allegedly tormenting her all year.
The two wrestle each other to the ground,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
crashnburn 4/26/2025 11:48:01 PM (No. 1940699)
Sounds like it might be time for a little vigilante justice. Just make sure it’s not on school property nor video.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/26/2025 11:54:06 PM (No. 1940701)
Growing up, I was always annoyed that schools/teachers never bothered to find out who started a fight but would always punish both the instigator and the one acting in self defense as if both were at fault. You were supposed to allow yourself to get beat up and then go tell on them, I suppose.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 4/27/2025 12:05:39 AM (No. 1940704)
It was just two girls having a tiff. No big deal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/27/2025 12:23:05 AM (No. 1940711)
SHE needs to SUE the Screwel and all involved individually AND Press Charges for the assualt!
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A big city high school principal tried that nonsense when one of my sons was the victim of assault and battery. A threat to sue the school district and file criminal charges against the assailant shut that down and got the assailant suspended with no sanctions against my son. That was in the 1980's so the problem is not new. Parents need to be super assertive on behalf of their children when dealing with school officials who think they can run roughshod over students' and parents' rights.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/27/2025 1:06:06 AM (No. 1940726)
One way or another the brother was going to get physical with her. It was a sign of affection don't ya know.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franq 4/27/2025 1:37:23 AM (No. 1940728)
Big man. Woe to any woman who gets involved with him .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 4/27/2025 2:23:04 AM (No. 1940738)
Lawsuit. Big Man should be charged with assault. Since they're different races, add any available hate-crime amplification available. Teacher should be charged as an accomplice, as any altercation should have been shut down long before Big Man could slap somebody.
Big Man probably belongs in school like I belong teaching string-theory; expel him for life.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/27/2025 7:29:07 AM (No. 1940803)
It is clear in the video that the much bigger guy threw the first punch, then followed up with a flurry of punches and grappled the girl to the floor. There was nothing mutual about it.
Schools have been dodging responsibility through the concept of a " mutual fight" for decades. It's a cowardly cop out. I think such matters should immediately be handed over to the police as the assault it is, perhaps with a special unit for kids to investigate it.
I had an incident where my daughter was assaulted on the school bus. The school didn't want to do anything about it. When we threatened them with legal action, the other student was kicked off the school bus.
When both parties are punished, it indicates there is no justice and victims are punished along with the assailant. This is what schools like this are "teaching". I wonder how that would translate to an adult rape case? Rather scary, right?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 4/27/2025 7:41:23 AM (No. 1940810)
Correct, #9. "Group punishment" is the coward's way out. Especially when race is involved. Our kids dealt with it in public school. One guilty student, the whole class has to write "I will behave in class" 100 times. The mistaken leftist notion that the opprobium of fellow students would correct the behavior of the punk is never seen to work.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/27/2025 8:25:00 AM (No. 1940833)
This is exactly what "common sense gun control laws" will look like.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/27/2025 8:41:32 AM (No. 1940847)
A parent or student versus the school system never ends fairly. Unfortunately, lawyers must get involved for any kind of justice to occur.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
oldretiredDAT 4/27/2025 8:47:35 AM (No. 1940850)
"a football player". Part of the problem is right there. In some states, HS sports are more important than a good GPA. The word NO is never used against an athlete. Starts young, ends up with some NBA/NFL player have 3 or 4 baby mamas and a few assault charges against women. I bet the coaches/administrators keep these "athletes" away from their daughters!!!
Baseball bat to his knees/groin area might teach him some manners.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Encore 4/27/2025 9:22:09 AM (No. 1940862)
A guy (big guy), physically picking on a girl. Where were all the guys with balls enough to teach this guy a thing or two about proper male behavior? Or is this the behavior brought on by ‘eqality’?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/27/2025 9:57:33 AM (No. 1940886)
My son had a similar incident in the VA Beach School District years ago. Another kid had been bullying him (and others) for months. Finally, one day he punched my son in front of a teacher, the teacher who saw it did nothing so my son tore into him. We got called to the school principal's office (to take him home for a suspension) and in the office I asked my son what happened. After he told me I said, in front of the principal, "Good job." The principal was shocked. I told her that the teacher had an opportunity to address it and didn't. Therefore, it was my son's right to defend himself. I also told her that he always had our blessing to defend himself; just don't throw the first punch. He did NOT get suspended that day and, more importantly, he was NOT bullied again.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/27/2025 10:04:49 AM (No. 1940890)
The little bullies in grade school become big bullies in high school just begging for a fight and it likely takes real physical injury to stop them. They are thugs. Why didn't anyone put a stop to 'junior' sooner? Where are the parents? Shouting lawsuit if you do anything to their bully. Where are the teachers? Doing nothing or blaming everyone which is the same as nothing. If you are on the receiving end of a high school bully, you work hard at avoiding them unless you are willing to actually hurt them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/27/2025 11:11:58 AM (No. 1940919)
First of all, I think race plays a bigger, but silent part here than the boy/girl aspect. The teacher should be disciplined for doing nothing. Only one black boy tried to stop the assault - where were the other students? Thank goodness for the video, but shouldn't that videographer had intervened?
If this boy did this in front of numerous witnesses, he is all but guaranteed to do it again - to her or another girl. Next time will be worse.
I hope that girl's father sues and wins.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/27/2025 11:56:08 AM (No. 1940949)
When I was in high school, the bully would have been punched out by two or three guys. Then, a gym teacher or two would have escorted him to the principal’s office - and he might have tripped and fallen down the stairs…
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/27/2025 12:26:20 PM (No. 1940978)
This is a routine outcome in government schools. When my boys were in school and were bullied, they were always punished, along with the perpetrator. The one time they did not get punished is when I went to the principal and said I was going to go to the local news station, if they didn’t correct the situation. Things moved pretty quickly, then.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
crashnburn 4/27/2025 1:07:55 PM (No. 1941020)
Luckily, I didn't get punished the one time I was in a fight in high school. I was a freshman in band. We were taking a break from marching practice on the football field. I was channeling Sheldon Cooper a long time before The Big Band Theory was even conceived. I said something to the effect that women have an extra layer of fat under their skin. That helps keep them warm and gives them their delightful curves. Anyway, the guy, a senior, who thought he was the toughest guy in school, purposely took that as an insult of his girlfriend because he wanted to make an example out of me, kicked me in the 'nads.
That didn't put me down. I'd already lost my only fist fight in 6th grade, so I didn't want to trade punches. Instead, I tackled him, and he spent the rest of the fight on the ground, trying to get away from me.
I don't know how long the fight went on, but eventually the band teacher pulled me off of him. My brother was there and said the teacher waited and watched for a while before he intervened. The bully happened to be the band teacher's favorite, so I just wonder if he was hoping the bully would somehow turn the tables.
I never had any trouble from him the rest of the school year. Shades of A Christmas Story, indeed.
(BTW, I was on the football team and went up against varsity players every day, and the bully wasn't nearly as tough as the guys on the team.)
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She needs to be taught to aim a kick at the gonads. That will take down ANY sized bully and a second kick will keep them there!!