Red Bank Fight or Bullying?

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Updated: 1/26 7:32 am
        Red Bank High School students gather around in the hallway as they watch two girls fight in the hallway in a cell phone video.
       But Rebecca Ashley is the mother of the girl spending most of the time on the ground, and she is not calling it a fight.
        "I consider it bullying," said Ashley. "She had a mild concussion, the left ear has stitches, she had the scratches on her stomach."
        She says the other girl sent her daughter a Facebook message the day before saying she would get her at school the next day.
        When Ashley watches the video, she says it makes her sick seeing her daughter so defenseless.
        "You get in trouble for not sending your kids to school but they're letting the violence happen at school."       
        Ashley received a letter saying her daughter was suspended from Red Bank for 20 days because the school has a no tollerance for fighting.
        "I don't see my daughter being able to do nothing or that she did anything to deserve the punishment she's getting," said Ashley.
        She thinks other kids should be punished as well for nagging it on, and she says the video that's been circling Facebook and cell phones is just as damaging to her daughter.
        Ashley said, "It bothers her it really does, it bothers her."
        Since she's suspended, her daughter won't be going back to school until March, and Ashley fears something worse could happen then.
        "I don't feel safe with my daughter going back to Red Bank High School.  I do not want her enrolled in that school period," said Ashley.

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AllenB - 2/1/2013 1:54 PM
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Susan, no one would have seen the fight IF SAM HAD NOT STARTED ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! It got out to the public falsely labled as bullying, AND THAT IS YOUR FAULT. It happened in the first place because Sam as always shot her mouth off and that is HER FAULT. Sam has been fighting since forever and THAT IS HER AND HER MOTHER'S FAULT. So quit blaiming the rest of us for something this out of control teenager does and her mother's incredible lack of parenting schools. The other student in the fight hasn't bashed anyone in the media, didn't start the fight. She defended herself because SAM PUSHED HER FIRST, and then swung and missed. If you want us to let it go then stop running with this kind of stuff to the media and falsely labeling it. Not to mention, Rebecca tried to blame Red Bank High School for this and IT IS NOT THE SCHOOL'S FAULT. I can only hope and pray Sam is not allowed back at Red Bank because of us are tired of her and her mother's crap.

Susan - 1/30/2013 3:20 PM
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REBECCA DID NOT POST THE FIGHT I DID, APPARENTLY EVERYONE HAD TO BLAME SOMEONE, WELL BLAME ME I SENT THE VIDEO TO NEWS 12, PEOPLE STOP THE HATE AND GET ALONG, DONT THROW BLAME TO OTHERS AND TRY TO CAUSE MORE TROUBLE. LOOK IN THE MIRROW AT YOURSELF AND LISTEN TO WHAT YOU SAY FOR WORDS SO HURT AND IF YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING THEN BLESS YOU..I JUST WANTED TO CLEAR THE BLAME ON THE PARENT..IF YOU DONT LIKE ME SENDING THE VIDEO THEM DONT PUT IT OUT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE...

rebecca - 1/29/2013 9:09 PM
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I do go to pal management for spine and other back problems so if i was geeked as u say then that is what strong pain meds can do.i am not a bad mom and i do not do drugs with sam as i have said over and over.i also will put more effort in sams shooting out the mouth.even if i have to sit at school with her.it is like sam said i got my butt kicked so she admits that.all was not her fault though but sam is the bad person in this and that is not right.i mean people no one is perfect and us adults need to stop this drama and grow up.it was a fight and both girls got punished and the officer at the school made a report.so hey let it go.

bigeastz - 1/29/2013 8:26 PM
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Wow!..thats all methed-up..Becca is geeking so bad she couldn't give a good interveiw...seems the other girl knew how to fight and yours didn't...other than getting laughed at..don't think they will be another fight...Redbank needs to look out for a active Meth Lab in the area...all-in-all wasn't much of a fight...probally be a bigger fight if they took Becca's foodstamps away from her...wasn't News worthy at all...

RBParent - 1/29/2013 8:01 PM
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Rebecca... look at the article. it directly quotes you calling it bullying. Watch the clip... you are on camera saying you consider it bullying. Same song and dance from you, as usual. And when Sammie finally comes back to school, we'll be lucky if two weeks goes by before she's shooting her mouth on facebook again trying to find someone to fight. Sammie has major problems and issues, that unfortunately she'll never get help for, because you refuse to see the problems she has. She's headed down a rough road in life, and I wish you would wake up to reality and help her get on a better path before it's too late.

rebecca - 1/29/2013 6:27 PM
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The school has the whole original video.i did not call it bullying but ok as an adult i will not argue with anyone because that is childish.my daughter will get her act together also.

rebecca - 1/29/2013 6:22 PM
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Theres no perfect child or adult in this world.i believe we all as kids and adults should get alone and grow up.meanig when it comes to violence or any other situation.i appoligize to the other girl and her family if they took it as me as sams mom blaiming it all on there daughter.so now let the law and courts take it in there hands.it was both girls fault.

RBParent - 1/29/2013 4:58 PM
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Are you freaking kidding me Rebecca? First of all, lots of us have seen the original video..because lots of students who witnessed the fight recorded it on their cell phones (also something they shouldn't have done), and texted it to everyone they could think of. If you didn't turn the video in to the media as you claim, why did you immediately lable it bullying, your child the victim, and blame the school and the other student? Because that's exactly what you did in your interview. If you want the fighting stopped as you claim, I suggest you start with getting your out of control daughter under control. This isn't the first time your daughter has been in a fight, or tried to provoke one. Your daughter started the fight, she pushed the other student first, swung at her, and missed. So how exactly is that Sammie being bullied? Quit passing the buck on everything, quit making lame excuses on everything, and get your kid under control.

rebecca - 1/29/2013 4:09 PM
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Sam has passing grades n no i didint volunteer .there r reasons behind me not voluteering.i have been having injections in my back and i had been having seizures.i had ask if i could voluteer in any other way than the consession stand and got no answer.i also said i would pay the fee for her to play the sport and what i want to know is what does the sport issue have to do with fighting?i do not do drugs except what my doctor prescribes me .i was just wanting to help the fighting issue in our schools.both girls r guilty and i just think the fight should have been stopped sooner.

rebecca - 1/29/2013 3:19 PM
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I also think that this had been stoped the first time both girls got into it.
 
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