Raniya Wright, a 10-year-old fifth-grader, died 2 days later following a fight that broke out between two other fifth-graders on Monday in her school's elementary classroom. While the cause for the fight is unclear, in my opinion, I do not think the reason for the confrontation was little, such as someone stealing someone's crayons out of their pencil box. The reason behind the altercation, in my opinion, had to have been very severe for fifth graders to go berzerk on one another. When school officials came upon the scene, they stopped the fight immediately, however, the length of the fight is unknown. Authorities have not yet released how Raniya was involved or injured, only that they believed the fight to be a "physical altercation" with no weapons involved. According to a sheriff's report, the 10-year-old was left unconscious in the school's nurse's office, and then later taken to a local hospital when the paramedics arrived. Raniya was then airlifted to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. The young 10-year-old later died on Wednesday. Family and friends remember Raniya as a young, good girl and an usher in their church who would never be involved with violence. An autopsy of her death was performed on Friday, but will not be released for several weeks.
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1. Do you think schools should implement surveillance cameras into classrooms to stop incidences like the one above from happening? Why or why not?
I think that school officials are going to monitor classrooms more frequently and hold many meetings with staff members to ensure that students are safe from the moment they walk in the classroom in the morning, till when they walk out to go home. I think that video cameras will be helpful in making sure students are safe at all times when the teachers are not present in the classroom.
2. What do you believe caused this fight among the two fifth graders? How do you think Raniya was involved?
I think that maybe one of the fifth-graders said something offensive to another student and seeing as there was no teacher in the room, the two students broke out in a fight. I think that Raniya got caught in the crossfire of it all. The fight probably caused a wild frenzy among all of the students since there was no adult to stop the fight from the beginning.
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Super job Ania!
Yes, that way the principal can see what is going on in classrooms in real life time when it's happening. Things like that shouldn't happen.
I think Raniya just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think one of the kids could have stolen something from the other and started the fight.
I agree. The surveillance cameras would help to prevent altercations from escalating to dangerous degrees like that of those that happened in the incident above. I strongly agree with your second answer, Billy Joe. I don't think Raniya meant to put herself in the middle of the fight, but exactly how you put it, "she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time".
I think that all schools should put surveillance cameras to regulate and be able to see when an incident like this happens. It should be for safety reasons. I feel like the one of the students said something that made the other angry. It is easy to make a little kid mad, especially when you do it on purpose. I don't think the other kid meant to do any harm, but it happened.
I completely agree with you. I think that these cameras would be beneficial in ensuring student safety. I also agree with you that nowadays kids have very short fuses and it is easy to make them mad. I also think that Raniya didn't mean to be involved in the fight, she just got caught in the middle, I feel. I don't think anyone in the classroom would have intentionally knocked out Raniya either.
I think that schools don't need to put cameras in classrooms because I don't think it'll stop an incident like this from happening and instead just put it on video. Someone would then have to watch the security footage all day in order to know when they need to prevent an incident that breaks out. I think the two fifth graders might have traded very bad insults or something and Raniya was caught in the middle like you said.
While having cameras in classrooms might be disruptive, and a tedious job for sifting through footage, I think that a benefit would be that students, especially younger kids, would behave better and not break out in fights if they know that any school official could be monitoring the cameras.
If i lived in this town I would be very upset about this situation. First of all, no 5th graders should be getting in physical fights at that age. Second of all, no one should have been hurt so badly that they were killed. Teachers or other students should have interacted before the situation got deadly. Raniya could have gotten involved if her friend was also in the fight.
I agree that it is ridiculous that fifth graders are starting physical fights with their peers. I think that when the fight broke out while the teacher was away, the other kids in the classroom couldn't stop the fight because the 2 fifth graders that were fighting probably didn't want to listen to their peers.
I don't think that putting cameras into classrooms is neccessary and I do not think that if there was a camera this would not have happend. It is the teachers responsibility to watch her class not the camera.
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