MONTREAL — The Internet is fuelling an extreme version of the high-school food fight, threatening innocent teachers and students with ham sandwiches, eggs and rotten tomatoes.
Police raised alarm bells on Thursday following an incident one day earlier at a high school in southwestern Montreal in which more than 20 baton-wielding officers needed three hours to quell a food fight that turned into a riot.
Three people were injured and two students were arrested and face assault charges.
Montreal police said that students are using the Internet to prepare for the fights, then posting videos on websites such as YouTube.
They say Wednesday’s incident was the third food fight at a Montreal-area high school in a week.
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This from the Chronicle-Herald, by way of This Week in Education.
2 comments:
It is very hard to monitor everything our children are reading, watching, and posting on the internet. I do know that my daughter's school does have many of the "popular" websites for students her age blocked.
I believe that the students in this article would have had the planned food fight whether it had been planned on the internet at school or at home. Many children have access to the internet at home. Many parents are not checking what their children are doing. If we took the internet off their phones and out of their rooms, and placed the internet accessed computer in a common room where they could be watched then this may cut out part of the problems. We will never be able to see all the things our children are doing but isn't that our jobs as parents to provide them with ethical behaviors of society?
It is very hard to monitor everything our children are reading, watching, and posting on the internet.
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