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Latest School Bullying Involves Teabagging

Updated: Thursday, 16 Feb 2012, 12:38 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012, 5:12 PM EST

PHILADELPHIA - The latest bullying incident at Philadelphia public schools involves teabagging, a craze where kids assault victims with their genitals.

Parents tell Fox 29 they are upset after their sixth grader was targeted by fellow students at a South Philadelphia local elementary school.

Taebagging has become a nationwide phenomenon, as students thrust their private areas into another student's face, sometimes just for fun.

But abigail vare elementary school parents say this horseplay is no laughing matter, especially after finding out it allegedly happened to a sixth grade boy during an assault two weeks ago.

An incident report shows he was thrown to the ground, kicked then subjected to the indecent horseplay.

The victim's parents now claiming the principal is trying to cover up the school yard assault.

The attack against the sixth grader happened on February 3rd.

On Wednesday, the district said the students involved were suspended and a parent teacher meeting allegedly was held with all the parents involved.

But the victim's parents say they weren't called to any meeting and didn't find out about the attack until Monday, February 13th.

A number of local teachers have come forward, saying they are fed up with violence in their schools.

The latest incident in the past week comes after multiple reports of bullying in the Philadelphia public school system, with many of the incidents filmed by students with mobile-phone cameras.
 

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