A bully can expect a hero’s welcome when she returns to the prestigious New York school where she carried out a vicious attack on a smaller girl who has been offered a transfer.
Gloating friends pulled out their phones to record the moment she strode up to the 11-year-old before flooring her with a punch and kicking her repeatedly as she lay in the street.
Stylized videos celebrated the attack outside Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented, with slow motion replays and laughing emojis adding to the humiliation.
But the attacker was served only with a suspension from the Brooklyn school while the victim now has been assigned a staff ‘bodyguard’ to escort her through the premises.
‘Imagine knowing you could not like someone, harass them, plot an attack and film it and spread the evidence,’ her father said.
Pupils laughed and filmed as the 11-year-old was approached from behind and punched to the ground in front of shocked pedestrians
Fifty-five percent of pupils think bullying occurs ‘most or all of the time’ at the Brooklyn charter school according to insideschools.org.
‘Then your victim has to leave and you get to go on terrorizing other kids.
‘If that keeps going, it will be more a juvenile detention center than a G&T school.’
The school in Coney Island boats a 99 percent pass rate in math, English, social studies, and science classes.
But 55 percent of pupils think bullying occurs ‘most or all of the time’ according to insideschools.org.
The girl’s father said his daughter had been targeted by the bully and her friends at the charter school since joining it in September, according to the New York Post.
The school offered ‘wellness check-ins’ and offered ‘restorative mediation’ sessions after the attack on October 20, including a sit-down session between the girl and her tormentor.
That further infuriated the bully who continued her abuse online and promised to resume the violence on her return.
Messages were scratched onto a bathroom stall labelling the little girl a ‘dirty a– whore’ and ‘fat as f***’, while a TikTok page called ‘Mark Twain Gossip’ attacked her for getting students suspended and called her a ‘bitch’ and ‘dumbass’.
Police are investigating the attack which was uploaded to TikTok with captions including ‘THE SMACK WAS MAD LOUD,’ and ‘my sister f***ed her up’.
But public schools in New York are governed by the city’s Department of Education (DOE) regulation A-450 which is designed to keep expulsions to a minimum.
While acknowledging that a principal ‘may pursue an involuntary transfer’, it insists that ‘every effort should be made to minimize any disruption to the student’s education’.
The school however seemed happy to disrupt the victim’s education with the offer of a ‘safety transfer’ to another school.
Another parent at the school took the offer last year after her daughter suffered ‘nightmarish’ bullying at the hands of the same people.
By the end her daughter was eating lunch with teachers, doing remote schooling and needing therapy.
‘I didn’t even recognize her anymore,’ the mother told The Post.
‘There are no consequences for the bullies,’ she added.
The victim lay helplessly in the street as her attacker pummeled her with punches ands kicks
‘It was like, to be successful, you have to destroy whoever you feel like is the big competition.’
A DOE spokesperson said the agency took immediate action after the incident.
‘Bullying has absolutely no place in our school communities, and we take every report of bullying extremely seriously,’ it added.
Dailymail.com has reached out to the DOE for further clarification.