Twitter and Facebook confrontations ends with a girl being beaten in the head with socks that held padlocks.

Last Thursday, Jenise L. Williams, 16, a sophomore, was attacked in the school’s hallway by two or three juniors wielding locks in their hands. Apparently the attack was a response to a back-and-forth dispute on Facebook.

“They were on there calling my daughter a ho. The girls beat her in the head with locks.”  said Tracy Polk, the victim’s mother.

Matt Hancock, the school’s executive director, would not discuss details of the incident, but confirmed that all of the students involved, including Williams, have been disciplined according to the Chicago Public Schools Code of Conduct.

“We issued suspensions and one referral for expulsion. We take issues of violence and bullying extremely seriously,” he said.

It was the second time Jenise has been suspended for fighting this semester. In the first incident, she claims the other girl hit her first. This time, Jenise said she was ambushed in the hallway.

“It was my first day back and I’m fixing to go to my classroom, and one of the girls walked up to my best friend and hit her. I turned around and one of the other girls hit me with a lock, and while we are fighting, someone hit me with a lock on the other side of my head,” she said.

“So after we had got done fighting, and I went to the hospital to get checked out, I went on Twitter to find out what was going on. CAT was trending,” she said.

“They were saying that the sophomores just beat up the juniors and that ‘y’all getting it tomorrow.”

Prior to the lock incident, Jenise had put a comment about a male classmate on her Facebook page.

“The girls who jumped on me commented on my status saying I was a ho. There were about 40 tweets about me saying I got beat up by a freshman,” she said.

Meanwhile, Jenise isn’t as concerned about fighting as she is about being out of school.

“I only fight if I have to, but they want to pick on me like I am supposed to be lame or something,” she said.

“I was bringing all my grades up. I was encouraged and thinking I could bring up the rest of my grades so my mama could be impressed. But after one fight, it was another. I know I have straight Fs now, being at home. It’s not fun.”

This mess is so trivial, but that’s how kids are.  They see these things as the biggest things in life that can make or take your place at the cool lunch table.

Social media is another thing we as parents must also monitor.  That’s if you don’t have one of those kids that have an alias or blocks you so that you can’t view their profile.  That’s when you have to step YOUR game up and create your own fake profile and know their friends.  Just think sneaky like they do. Certainly you can take it from there.  Just stay one step ahead of them. If you don’t you’ll lose them to this nonsense one way or another.

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