Sue Scheff: Teen Fight Clubs - School Violence
Last week I wrote about School Violence . This week Connect with Kids gives us parenting tips on Fight Clubs. Source: Connect with Kids Fight Clubs “Some of them would stop when the guy just got knocked out cold, totally knocked out - unconscious, got knocked unconscious.” – David, 19 years old Fighting just for the fun of it is back. Fight clubs were popularized in the 1999 movie with the same name and now students at three different high schools in California have been arrested for taking part in these organized brawls that draw hundreds of spectators and often end up on the Internet. The fight club videos that some kids post on the Internet can be gruesome, brutal. “Some of them would stop when the guy just got knocked out cold, totally knocked out - unconscious, got knocked unconscious,” says 19-year-old David, who fought in and watched many fight clubs during his high school years. And yet, kids say taking part in fight clubs is… fun. “It’s just an adrenaline rush, it gets you pu...