Wrong Usage of Social Media Leads to an After School Fight

Social media is a part of the typical lifestyle of young people nowadays. It can help or hurt people depending on how they use this technology.

According to Parenting, a Denver middle school student named Heaven Velasquez has been bullied at the school last October. The allegation is that her family is homeless, according to her mother Jeanette Velasquez.

Velasquez said that "It was a planned out attack," and it is being planned in advance by posted it in Facebook. It was videotaped by a student and posted online, announcing the upcoming fight with Heaven and asking some student to share it on public. Later on the fight begun and someone videotaped it.

The footage shows that Heaven and a girl were fighting with each other. Heaven and the other girl were suspended for two days, according to the school administration. But Velasquez insisted that the punishment is not enough. She believes that the school administration should take immediate action before the fight begun.

"It started with girls just talking about her, to exchanging words back and forth, to actually the physical altercation," Velasquez said. According to her, her daughter is afraid to go to school since the fight begun. Heaven also feels that the school doesn't take her issue seriously, as reported by Foxnews.

The school administration issued a parents' conference to talk about the issue and take actions on fight plans posted on Facebook before it happens. They use Velasquez's screenshot to support the allegation about fight plans.

Denver Public School System announced: "We also ask that parents alert their child's teacher to the bullying behavior and ask specifically what the teacher will do to address the behavior' we encourage parents, if they feel that it is necessary, to inform the school principal and ask those same questions."