Apr 10, 2018 UFC star Paige VanZant says she was gang raped in high school by a bunch of boys who got her drunk and assaulted her when she couldn't defend herself. The 24-year-old described the incident.
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ByGang violence in high school is a problem that almost all communities face. Many teenagers who do not have a good home life and feel unaccepted or want to have a 'family' will turn to gangs. Teens who have friends who are in gangs are also likely to due to.
Gang activity and violence is something that can be hard to prevent once teens are in the gang, especially in bigger cities. According to the annual National Youth Gang Survey, programs to help kids that are at risk can greatly reduce the amount of teens who get involved with gangs. Causes of Gang Violence in High SchoolThe causes of gang violence in schools, and in cities in general, can vary greatly.
Many adolescents who do not feel that they have at home will turn to gangs. To be accepted into the gang, teens often have to commit some sort of crime or go through hazing. Hazing is usually considered forcing a new member of a group, such as a fraternity, sorority, or a gang, to perform an embarrassing or illegal act to be accepted into the group. Hazing is often found in high schools, colleges, and gangs, and it can become cruel. Many schools have strict policies about the hazing of underclassmen by the school's upper classmen. Some hazing rituals involve harassing members of other gangs, and in high school can result because of retaliation to hazing. Other reasons for gang violence are as follows:.
The. Alcohol and. Disputes over gang 'territory' (often parts of a neighborhood or certain areas of a school).
Gang rivalries. of the same gang or of other gangsamong individuals are much more complex.
Usually, teens from a bad home life or with psychological problems will turn to violence to solve their issues with peers as well as with their families. Violence StatisticsIf you are looking for statistics on gang violence in high school, then the Internet is a good place to start. Using search engines like Google.com and Yahoo.com allows you to find websites with useful information. There are also many books at your local library, but they may be a bit outdated if you are looking for the most recent statistics.According to, every city with a population that numbered over 250,000 people reported some sort of gang activity in the year 2001, and 59 percent of the homicides in Los Angeles that same year were due to gang violence. The reasons for this amount of violence can be seen in the childhoods of the gang members committing the crimes: reports that 50 percent of men who are abusive toward their spouses will end up being as well.
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Teens who have grown up in a violent home are often much more violent than teens who have not. Preventing Gang InvolvementWhile the statistics of teen violence are alarming, there is much that can be done to prevent it.
Programs to help at-risk kids, such as the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, can help to prevent violence when the kids get older, as well as help to keep them in school. Parents who refuse to tolerate any type of violence can help prevent it as well, and making sure to keep an eye on teens who seem like their behavior has changed drastically can make possible teen violence or gang activity preventable.
HAYWARD (CBS 5) – Police have stepped up patrols at Hayward High School following a string of brawls that may be tied to local gangs, some of the fights were recently.Massive fights broke out last Thursday, and were followed up the next day after class. Video, which was posted on YouTube, suggests tensions between African-American and Latino students, with the possibility of a gang influence involved.Students who spoke to CBS 5 Thursday said the violence isn’t that surprising at a school where gang colors are worn openly.KCBS’ Chris Filippi Reports:The school has a dress code, and claims to prohibit the wearing of red or blue. While some schools in the district have a zero-tolerance policy on gang colors, our reporters found students openly wearing prohibited clothing Thursday.Superintendent Janis Duran said, despite the fight videos, Hayward High is a safe place for students.“What we really concentrate on is making sure when they’re with us, when they’re under our care, before, after schoolthat they feel safe and they are safe,” said Duran.The school was outfitted with security cameras in the last two years, and just won a commendation for taking steps to increase safety.(Copyright 2011 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Correction majority of this land(US) was the native american not the mythical aztlan This is the land of our forefathers but it a land promised to those that would live according to the laws of the creator. Rather than promote unity and understanding you promote racism. Rather than promote self reliance and furthering our people by our own means you would have us think we need special treatment to be equal in your affirmative laws. Were our people wronged yes. But our people had done the same to others (or perhaps you forget our savage past).This land is the land of my ancestors but others have made their home here as well and as long as the US Constitution exists to protect them so i will defend them for they are my country men no matter what “race”. There is only one race the human one. You’re correct Big Tony.
Spending more money on the schools (as pea-brained scott has stated) is NOT the problem – in fact, it may actually be part of the problem! My sister-in-law has been a teacher most of her life and is soon to retire. She told me that she has many times been personally embarrassed by the lack of professionalism and stupefying lack of knowledge displayed by many of the newer teachers today. She believes that teaching is “devolving” into a political union mindset and that the phrase “those who can do – those that can’t teach” is truer than anyone wants to admit.
Of course, she also says that many parents seem to believe that the school systems are a substitute baby sitter and is a big contributor to the problem. So, when the eductaion system can get their collective act together, I’m not interested in giving them one more cent of my money!. Hayward High is one of the most diverse schools.
I am sick and tired of people making assumptions of this school while not having the facts. This school is falsely portrayed. The media only shines their not so helpful light when something bad happens. Never do they show up when something good happens. What saddens me most are all of the people commenting on here that are falling for this rhetoric. I bet many of you do not know that we have Hayward High alumni that go to Harvard, Georgetown, Cal, UCLA, etc.
Yes, Hayward High may have its flaws but so does every school. The more attention you pay to this, the more reason you’re giving the media to exaggerate the truth. This whole situation has been blown completely out of proportion. I have attended Hayward High for four years and I feel safe and I am properly educated. The school has worked extremely hard to keep the students safe and away from violence.
So please, before everyone begins pointing fingers or even speaking poorly of such a great school, do your research. I am proud to be considered a Farmer and would not have wished to attend any other high school. This school has sincerely shaped me into who I am and led me down a great path. Every generation of poor and uneducated citizens grows exponentially larger.
Poor people having babies that they cannot afford, who, in turn have kids who go out and have more babies that they can’t afford, and so on and so on. I think if someone accepts public assistance must first agree to have a Norplant birth control device put in their body. And also their female offspring when they reach the “birthing” age. If we don’t break this cycle quickly we are all doomed. It may already be too late. The E, if I may enlighten you, Hayward High is adequately educating us. Do not judge our student body based off of one student nor based off the video.
I would not be attending UCLA beginning in September or be a Gates Scholarship finalist if I were not properly educated. Hayward High has the highest graduation rate in the district. We have students graduating from this school and attending many distinguished universities.
So before you begin to make a claim, make sure your premises is not faulty. Your argument is illogical and absurd. You sound ignorant and uninformed. If that is so, please do not comment on a topic you know nothing about. Rather than speaking poorly of this school, why don’t you get up from your computer and do something to help the community? Comments such as yours make me livid. That is your name right?
Can I just point out, you that you are belittling a high school student for a grammatical error? On the internet hmm. You do realize that this is the internet and the rules of grammar do not apply to students on the internet as they are away from any school related topics that require proper grammar.
Sure I’d love to see every high school student out there writing correctly with all their punctuations and grammatical rules but guess what Jeff, this is the internet. No one cares if you’re grammatical correct ON THE INTERNET. How are you going to judge this one student based on one paragraph that he/she wrote on an online article. I would be expecting that an adult like you (I presume you are an adult since you have a third grader) judges a students intelligence based on the content that they write in school and not on the random babbling they do online to blow off steam. Good day to you Jeff. If other adults are like you I can’t wait to grow up and criticize everything wrong with public schools, instead of actually going out of my way and trying to do something positive. Nope, just like you and the other idiots on this article I’m just going to sit here and type furiously, pointing out every small negative detail I can, because that’s what being an adult is all about.
Arguing with teenagers is swell isn’t it?.sarcasm. in case you didn’t get the hint. Have fun overgeneralizing high school students based on one comments. ? Didn’t know adults could be so petty.
Kid, I’m not going to do the “attack the teachers” line or the “kid doesn’t know English” line. I will say that you make an incorrect assumption that no one else in the world but HHS studenst can understand what “really” goes on there.
Most public HS’s around the country have had fights. Some very frequently.
Many gang related. Usually male on male.
The difference now is that the guy you get into a fight with will likely come back with a gun rather than just a punch or even a knife. Fights rarely escalated in the 50’s and 60’s into knife fights and almost never into gun fights.
Kids today need to understand that standing up for yourself, your “honor” or anything else can go critical mass on you in a hurry. The only thing the adults can do is back up the kids that are trying to get an education DESPITE the violence in their schools. The problem is too many parents sue the schools because little Johnny “would NEVER do THAT”. The schools saying that what happens before/after school isn’t their business is a cop-out because they, more than many parents, know when kids are meeting for a fight somewhere.
It takes the school, the parents and the students all involved or this just continues. All community members must take responsibility for helping teenagers make decisions that will benefit the long term not the short term.
Everyone needs to also understand that without programs, motivations, affirmation, and positive refelctions of their culture, background, and insight, teenagers don’t necessarily seek the means to get positive attention. If they don’t get positive attention, they reach out for negative attention. That is what is happening. Students who are involved, doing well in school, working, doing community service, supporting their families, etc.
HAVE TOO MUCH TOO LOSE and behave in more appropriate ways. We have to give students what they need! All community members? My mother and father taught me right from wrong, set clear expectations, provided me with role models, opportunitiess and they were there for me if I needed encouragement or a swift kick in the pants. They didn’t need or want help from the community, The teacher’s job it to teach, the preacher’s job is to preach, the plumber’s job is to fix the sink and the dentist’s job is to fill cavities.
“We” don’t have to give the HHS students anything! The “community” doesn’t owe them anything (they are already being given access to a free education). Whatever it is you think they need and aren’t getting, make it the parent’s job! Wow, this is the reason why my school gets a bad name! It’s because of people who actually “THINK” they know about Hayward high and say its a bad and unsafe high school. People who attend Hayward high know for a fact if you stay away from problems like these nothing will happen to you. The whole fight started over some lame drama and it turned into a fight.
Our school is really is good believe it or not a lot of people get along. There isn’t gangs at Hayward high like back then they have been fading away. There’s almost 4 times more students that will attend college next fall then gang members for the past 3 years at HHS.
There will always be ignorant people who think they know about Hayward high like CBS and others who have never even been up HHS. I went to Hayward back in the 70’s. There was racial tension back then but they didn’t label the groups “gangs,” was just the whites, blacks and Mexicans. One time there was a huge conflict behind the gym.
Whites against the blacks. Fight raged for some time until one of the idiots pulled a shotgun and blasted the gym windows. We sat up on the hill by the tennis courts and watched it all. “We” being whites, blacks, Mexicans and Asians all together getting along and having fun.
It was like watching a bunch of lunatics but admittedly it was quite entertaining. Another time there was the most brutal knock-down, drag out fight I ever seen between 2 guys named Randy right in front of the school.
The school officials just watched knowing it was best not to try to break them up. These were big, mean guys and they were going for blood. The one knocked the other down numerous times but he kept getting up until he physically couldn’t. The only difference between then and now is we didn’t label groups of kids gangs, and there was no cell phones to video the fights with nor any YouTube to post them on. Despite the occasional fight and clash of idiots it was a great school and even though the “grown ups” referred to it as a dangerous and out of control school, it was very safe and fun to attend.
Seriously I wish you could see how utterly lacking your education has been. The basis for my observation is the lack of good grammar and analytical skills evident in your commentary.
Yes, I have heard far worse but please don’t presume that you have been “well educated” when it is so obvious that you have not been. It appears that you are a decent well-intentioned person, but deluding yourself into accepting that an “HHS education” is perfectly “acceptable” is well, very depressing. Our standards have dropped so low that what was once considered unacceptably poor is now touted as “brilliant”.
If only simple “self-esteem” were sufficient, we would be in high clover! Having taught in the public high schools for 13 years now, I home school my kids 10 & 8. The schools simply have too many kids with too many problems and too few people truly dedicated to helping them learn.Having said that, we spend a lot of time teaching our two kids at home and we know their weeknesses and strengths. I can’t possibly have that kind of knowledge about all my students at school AND have parents dedicated to their students’ education like my wife and I do at home.My children are no more gifted than any kids in the public schools, but the standard is high at home and they meet it with much reinforcement. They are involved in sports, choirs, arts, church group, music lessons, and home school co-ops where other parents teach certain subjects to groups of kids one day a week.
They do chores, help cook and clean, etc. I bet any kid from these schools would be good at many things, if they had adults who invested in their lives.Even with all we do for ours, I still pray they turn-out all right. We won’t know that until they are grown up!.
The problem is ‘diversity,’ which comes from the word ‘diverse.’ That word means ‘separate, apart, unlike,’ according to Webster’s dictionary. USA needs UNITY for strength, not DIVERSITY–which leads to ghettoes, animosity toward outsiders, too many languages, etc. Diversity is ruining our once-United States of America. It’s costly in many, many ways, including language. We are one country and should all speak, write only one language when in public, ENGLISH.
One Nation, One Official Languge: English. Think about thisArabs, Asians, Indians, and Russians all have entirely different alphabets from ours BUT they have somewhat mastered our English language. However, stubborn south-of-the-border Spanish who have the same alphabet as ours refuse to speak/write English, so our government caters to their needs/desires. Why?.It baffles and angers me greatly!
Liberals foster this sort of environment, knowing it’ll end in chaos, which is what they thrive on. They have no real interest in solving problems. They only want to give the.impression. that they’re solving problems with more money and their “noble” Utopian ideas. They do not understand or care to factor in that people, like animals, are naturally territorial.
They need their space. Liberals just throw them into an arena and hope for some fun. Then they can justify their existence by rushing in to solve the problems they created.
It’s all part of the corrupt educational system (their salaries) and we pay for it in taxes and disorderly conduct. Stop putting these people in office and you might see real change someday. Until then, it’ll be more of the same. This is the irony and the dilemma the race whiners will increasingly have to face on their own, isn’t it? The money is running out. The jobs are not being replaced.
The responsible taxpayers are taking their ambitions to greener pastures. Those that work for what they have will find ways to keep it. It’s what they do. It will be interesting to see what these people are able to accomplish on their own merit now that the outside resources they once depended on are drying up.
“Get whitey” often translated to “get more free rides.” but I don’t see a whole lot of potential for either side getting a severe case of race guilt and paying the other off to be quiet in this scenario. Just another inconvenient truth, isn’t it? California deserves what they get. They have bent over for mexicans and now they look wide eyed at the mess and wonder how it got there! Buck up CA you have more to come as long as you continue to vote liberal/radicals into office. You are broke, choking with illegals. Build a new even bigger jail and toss them in and guard your borders with the National Guard oftherwise you are sunk and so are your real estate prices, not that they aren’t already and your government even more bankrupt if that’s possible.
Knock the freebees. Forgive me for being a skeptic but as bad as the writer is trying to make Hayward seem, anyone looking really close at any urban nyc school will notice gang culture. If anything Nyc is tame compared to the early to mid 90s. There will always be fights and the fact no stabbing, cutting or shooting was reported means the school is safe. Might as well put children in mini jails if cameras aren’t enough for “concerns” about child safety.
What needs to be done is in the “community” not the schools, gangs begin in the community primarily so hit the source. Give these kids space to play and let off energy and you will see violence decrease. I go to Hayward high and everybody makes the school seem so much worse than it really is. Yeah we have fights and aren’t the most perfect school but there’s alot of of other schools like us and even ones that are worse. I’m white and never feel unsafe because I know what crowd to hang out with without having all of these problems.
People only talk about our school when there’s something bad happening, not when our sports teams are doing good, our school band wins competitions or even when we find out some students made it into UCLA and even Cal Berkeley. Hayward high is a good school and most of us students and faculty try our hardest to make it better everyday but people only care about all the negative things and that’s just rude. And like other people in comments have said, you people don’t go to the school so you don’t know anything going on besides all the bad things so you should go there for 4 years like me then you’ll find out how much potential Hayward high actually has. HHS Student,Keep your nose clean and stay out of trouble. I went there in the early 90s and went on to get a 4 year degree, followed by an MBA. I did what you are doing and I didn’t feel unsafe either. You know the ones that are going to start the fights and you know the ones that are going to get in trouble and so do the teachers and administrators.
Unfortunately, a feel good story doesn’t sell well so you don’t hear about the success stories. The security cameras are new, you think they are working? Everybody on here that thinks it’s a race thing needs to go on youtube and lookup “Casey Haynes Fight”. You will see the same thing I witnessed in a rural high school in Indiana in the 70’s and 80’sthere is always somebody picking on somebody else until that somebody has had enoughno matter what race they are.I’m Mexican (only one in our school at the time) and have been a mechanical engineer for 20+ years. Our valedictorain, and my best friend, started college in pre-med, dropped out, and has been a truck driver for 20+ years. You never know what God has in store for you, but you better be ready to adaptand be happy.God Bless.
Diversity and multiculturalism only work when people are reflective enough to rationally adopt values and use free speech to spur human progress through spirited, but respectful debate. Free speech is important, but like any right or virtue, it can be perverted. Instead of using debate to bring attention to flaws in our system, an entire generation has been told that the purpose of freedom of speech is to say or do what they want (usually based upon how they “feel,” not on what is rational) without any concern for whether that speech contributes to a greater polis. When two people of different cultures are both capable of comparing and contrasting value systems through respectful and inteligent debate, it is true that they can learn from one another. They can find strenghts in their opponents arguments, and learn to humbly accept weaknesses in their own. The liberals are right about the potential benefits of diveristy. However, diversity to actually work, people have to be rationally driven creatures with a focus on improving themselves, their relationships and their communities.
It’s like giving animals acces to an electron microscope. They don’t know how to use it for its best purpose, and instead, resort to hitting eachother over the head with it.
Every generation of poor and uneducated citizens grows exponentially larger. Poor people having babies that they cannot afford, who, in turn have kids who go out and have more babies that they can’t afford, and so on and so on. I think if someone accepts public assistance must first agree to have a Norplant birth control device put in their body. And also their female offspring when they reach the “birthing” age. If we don’t break this cycle quickly we are all doomed. It may already be too late. This country has changed for the worse.
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I’m not sure how much immigration has to do with it. I think it has more to do with these idiots in general. Low class people. All they want to do is rob, fight and rape or whatever. Very, very sad state of affairs in this country. Where the hell are these kids parents and what kind of guidance are they offering their children?
It is getting to be “root hog or die” in this country. These gangs are nothing but punks. On their own they are cowards. They make me sick! As a hispanic, the blacks never got along with the latino community, just only on tv with the justice bros. Rev.jackson, rev.
Growing there were no blacks in our community well maybe a handful, but as school busing was implemented the inner city children from los angeles were being bused to the schools in the suburbs crime went up in our neighborhoods, and the undesirable inner city black kids tore up our community that is why we hispanics from the san fernando valley foothills do not like the blacks. Diversity, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.(Last link of Banned Book).
“Dumb illegals” and “lazy afros”. If you were ever an educator (and I am highly dubious), you were obviously a sorry excuse for one and part of the problem. A real job in the oil industry? Pathetic on too many levels to go into. This article was yellow press at its finest. A sensationalized and exaggerated version of the truth.
It’s too bad channel 5 is more interested in ratings than the truth. It was a freakin fight. It happens at every high school.
Now it has evolved into an opportunity for ignorant rants by people who have no clue. LOL @ ignorant American’s complaining about something they saw on television.As a Hayward High student, i laugh at how ridiculous you all are.
Turn of the television please and learn real news. Stop jumping to a completely unrelated topic because of this.
No, your race isn’t superior. Learn to spell before you post on this board. Go care about issues that affect you. Tell me, how many of you know actually know what the House of Representatives is? What form of government is the United States? What’s the United State’s official language.Sad part is, most of you won’t even be able to answer. All these racist comments leave me baffled.
If your a. was colonized, oppressed, and not taught how to read for generations, you’d have somthing different to say. If your a. was stripped of cultural heritage and you were denied your identity and laws kept you segregated, you’d have something else to say. Europian colonial masters took your indentured servant, poor class behind and brainwashed you to believe you were superior to Africans (not true) so that you would not rise up against them and against the status quo that kept you poor. You are just as much a part of divide and conquer as the next group because you are being kept down just as much as the rest by the elite in this country who are white and could not give a sh. about you.
Your superior racist attitudes have no weight, nor do your boot straps mentalities. People have been robbed and you act like you are better. Shut your faces. Listen this is a shout out to everyone who does not go to Hayward High nor has ever went to Hayward High, get your mouths to close.
Not ONCE has the news been to Hayward High when doing something positive, EVER. Examples of positivity: Down town rally? When everyone joins together? Day of silence? When everyone is supportive?
Honoring traditions of the past? CesarChavez rally? To inform everyone of what yoy unity can do? When different people band togther with common intrest? Puente carwash?
Raising money for (RIP) Julian Contreras and family? The list continues on Blame is being put on Hayward High, for a fight that didn’t even happen on campus. Because believe it or not, security, Bullis, Haze, and teachers do there best to stop tensions instead of backing away like.hint hint. soft hearted creature afraid more for themselves than students. Lastly, this is aztlan. I don’t think the fighting will stop because this is the second big riots we had and I do know how it works at Hayward high because I go there now and know half the people who where in the fights. You really think sectury have been doing there job?
Because it takes another big fight for them to realize and get there act together, there BARELY having someone stand at the gate in the back. Weren’t by suppose to been done that and make the kids feel safe? Like don’t get me wrong Hayward high can be cool at there moments But it sucks to tell people what school I go to and all they can say is “oh you go to that ghetto school? I would never go there I heard it’s gonna get shut down” not once have I heard anything good.
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