Daily Mail
February 1, 2014
A shocking video shows a teacher helplessly stuck in the middle of a classroom fight – with no one coming to her aid.
The footage, recorded by a teenage boy in the class at Gibbs High School in St Petersburg, Florida, shows two young girls exchanging a war of words with their classmates egging them on.
The female teacher initially stands between the girls, trying to get them to calm down, but then the students start lashing out at each other – and she can do nothing but stand back and watch.
Other students clear tables to make way for the fight, while they encourage the girls to scrap.
The fighting students can be seen pulling each other’s hair, slapping each other’s faces and dragging each other across the floor in the four-minute footage.
The teacher can do nothing but abandon any effort to continue teaching the class.
At some point, she called for help, but it is not clear when, Pinellas County Schools spokeswoman Melanie Marquez Parra told the Tampa Bay Times.
A campus monitor, two administrators and another teacher responded to the fight, Parra said. On the video, a group can be seen pulling the two girls apart.
She would not reveal the grade or name of the teacher because it could identify the students.
St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz told the Times that officers were not called to the scene.
‘The (school resource officer) wasn’t aware of this until well after it was over,’ he said. ‘It is our understanding that the school is handling it internally.’
The video of the fight was posted on Facebook and later removed – but it continued to circulate.