re: 10-year-old boy charged with assault following dodgeball game at school

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The boys were all outside playing a game at recess. This game is a game that the boys call "Tips" (how do they come up with these names? I swear...). In this game, the group of players stands in a circle and throws a ball up in the air to each other while they jump in the air. A couple of rules-- In order to catch the ball you have to be jumping, and if the players break the circle, the game is over. This game, if you ask me, sounds very exhausting. No thanks.

When the circle was broken (for those of you keeping score at home, that means the game was over) and everyone was chasing the rogue ball, Boy #2, I guess, did not cope with the loss (?) well. Boy #2 proceeded to stand less than a couple feet from Boy #1 and throw the ball they were all playing with directly at Boy #1’s face so hard that it made the recess attendants cringe. After the incident, Boy #2 said, “That’s what you get!” and walked away from Boy #1, leaving him in tears.

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well if this is true then it certainly changes things

I'm still not sure about charging a 10 year old with assault though

so, were they actually playing dodge ball or not?

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do what? you think it's absurd to get hit in the face in dodgeball?

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It wasn't dodgeball, for starters.

Nobody is even reading the story, bunch of illiterates

So much WTF in this story.

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her son Bryce was suspended from Erikkson Elementary School "for throwing a ball back at a student during recess, while playing a game called TIPS/ DODGEBALL,"

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I'm legitimately amazed that they still play this at school. I figured it would have been cut out years ago.

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the Principal disclosed that the injured student has a pre-existing condition," Lindley wrote. She was told the student had chronic brain stem infliction.

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Why the frick was he playing dodgeball then? Did the school know about this condition? Did the PE teacher know about it or just the administration or nurse?

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Lindely learned that her son was being charged with aggravated assault in the 3rd Circuit Juvenile Court in Detroit, Michigan.

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Well that's just fricking comical.

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According to a police report filled after the incident, Bryce intentionally threw the ball at the boy's face. "He sustained facial issue damage to his face. He had a black eye and a bruised nose," a parent at the school told local station WXYZ-TV.

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It's elementary school, how do you know that the kid was aiming at the face? He could have just been throwing in the general direction and happened to hit the face. Plus how is an elementary school kid going to throw it hard enough to inflict facial tissue damage? Were they playing with baseballs or something?

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"My son was hit twice in the face with a ball previously due to this.

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So this has happened before, you know about his condition, and he's still out there playing dodgeball? Was it the same kid that hit him before? Is this a bullying issue with this one kid or was it someone totally different?

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The child apologized to my son and my son said 'Mom, it's OK, we're still going to be friends,'" the mother, who remained anonymous, told the station.

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It sounds like the kids are the only one with any common sense in this whole matter.

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You can quote the relevant parts without quoting the entire thing.

Your title is fake news as frick and misleads people into thinking it was a normal game and a kid got arrested.

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I swear to god you’ve got to be a woman the way you whine and bitch in literally every fricking thread you choose to infest.

I quoted the first few paragraphs as is standard practice then linked the rest so whoever wanted could then read the read the rest of the story. But here you are bitching because you think I should hold your little hand because you apparently see to think it takes some sort of great effort to click a link.

So unless you want to discuss the story itself, stop your bitching.

Apparently you didn't read the whole story. They weren't playing dodgeball.

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I swear to god you’ve got to be a woman the way you whine and bitch in literally every fricking thread you choose to infest.

I quoted the first few paragraphs as is standard practice then linked the rest so whoever wanted could then read the read the rest of the story. But here you are bitching because you think I should hold your little hand because you apparently see to think it takes some sort of great effort to click a link.

So unless you want to discuss the story itself, stop your bitching.

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You predictable hack.

Never address the actual points made, just ramble off a melty insult laden rant.

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This, it started happening when I was in school and even as a kid you could see the change.

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This thread has a little bit of everything.

Fake news is impressive. This Bryce kid is apparently a massive bully and did apparently assault the kid, yet without the full details, people are using it as an indictment of the school system and the future of this country.