Red v blue school fight nonsense

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Have you heard much about this schools being added to groups then encouraged to be violent towards each other Basically fighting
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Lucky my youngest has just come straight home from school, I've offer to drive him, but he wants to walk

Sorry worded badly i meant the school across the road from ds primary school. Was named which is a secondary school.

I'm in Reading and I've just seen someone in a local Facebook group share a red and blue picture with local schools named, telling people to bring their shanks.

Doesn't say where they're supposed to bring their shanks to though.

Lots of people commenting saying it's real and police are taking it seriously.

No idea if anything really will happen or if it's just someone trying to scare people.

Did you report it to Facebook and 101? The police are saying that anyone sharing the posts could be charged with incitement: https://www.metengage.co.uk/Alerts/A/404610/Social-media-re-school-fights

I don't think there have been any reports of actual fights. It is just a provocative meme. The best way to deal with it is to report it and not share it further.

Dreamed up by Reform in the pre election period to stoke fear and accusations. Guess who will be blamed for it (eye roll). Even used the colours of the main political parties to stoke division even further. All nonsense!

I didn't know that.

The post I saw is clearly being shared to warn people rather than incite. The person who shared the picture wrote something like "don't let your kids out."

It's in a group mostly used by middle aged mums.

The mums are unwittingly spreading the meme and helping it go viral.

I agree, it's the people sharing it to 'raise awareness' that are giving it life. It's not a real thing, just some nonsense that is being shared on social media.

Reform targeting the parents telling them their kids aren't safe, country has gone to the dogs, etc etc.
It wasn't Farage was it?

The flyers have been showing up on our local Facebook page for a few weeks now, first Croydon then Hackney. I did wonder if it was created to manufacture an idea that London is violent. As far as I can see, nothing has happened locally

We had the same stuff posted about schools in Thanet in Kent so it's not about making London seem dangerous.

Hilarious - kids don't use Facebook! It is clearly aimed at the adults.

To be fair, I'd not seen it on Facebook, someone posted the pic on our street WhatsApp, so I didn't know it was on Facebook, but you're right, the kids don't use it.

Same.
One of my old school friends (Bristol) lost her son to a stabbing, and she is terrified about this, as are her other kids and their peers.
When I was in school, there were times we had to hide our uniform under our coats in case a "rival" school pupil saw us. And there are comments on this Red v Blue stuff saying it is a right of passage!

Had a message about this from my Ds’s school today. We are in Sutton

My son and his friends were apparently heading off to where there was some altercation meant to be taking place after school today. Luckily my DD heard them talking about it and told DP who phoned DS and told him and his friends to get themselves home asap. I doubt anything was actually going to happen..a lot of it seems to be rumour on SM, but better to be safe than sorry.

DS had a good talking to about staying away from any possible trouble, were in SE London but not a borough currently identified as a hotspot.

Sutton - the South London one?
There was already that "Blind Date" thing that got out of control a few weeks ago.

@XenoBitch I am pretty much anti school uniform and this type of thing makes me want it not to exist even more.
If you have to hide the clothes you are wearing so people don't know you're the "enemy" then you shouldn't have to wear those clothes.
If a bunch of teens who don't know each other are all together in the same area they wouldn't have a clue what different school they all go too if they weren't in uniform.

That feels a little victim blaming to me. Maybe teach kids not to go after kids from different schools.

That's my point...kind of.
How would they know they're from different schools and whether they are the "enemy"?
I agree so much about we should be teaching teens not to want to fight.
Schools will always be rivals (and always have) but surely it should be via sports teams or similar.
Friendly rivalry can be good but this is all so depressing.

Apparently all the schools in Bristol were categorised, police were on high alert today. Thankfully my town only has one secondary school

I’m in SE London. We had a very sensible e mail from school alerting us to it. I have a Y9, and from what I can tell, the vast majority of kids have no interest in getting themselves into fights/getting stabbed and whilst it was good for a bit of gossip for an hour or two, it all seems to have passed without incident. My Y12 rolled his eyes and declared the whole thing a stupid social media thing. Hopefully it stays that way.

I spoke to my DS14 and DS12 about this. They both said it was silly rubbish and none of their friends are taking it seriously. They laughed at me when I brought it up and said it was just bots and a load of stupidness.

More bullshit social media.
Don't sign up to child abuse.
Protect your children from child abuse.
Stop child abusers (Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat etc) having access to your children.

We are in East London, DS is in Year 10 and his school took it really seriously.

We had 3 texts from the head teacher about it this week. Police and staff on the lookout at school and nearby streets the last 2 days at the end of the day. And they cancelled all after school clubs this aft so kids weren't coming out at staggered times. They did two assemblies on it and told all students from year 5-13 to go straight home and walk in groups if they were in uniform. Interesting (and weird!) to hear it was an adult. But, I'm not surprised as when I asked DS he said no one his age knows anything about it and wasn't worried at all. Infact, when I said I felt a bit anxious about his solo walk to school and back (20 mins) he was 🙄🫤.

I hope students weren't too scared, it's awful to feel unsafe - but I'm pleased our school acted and communicated the risk with everyone. Even if it's seemed full on. Better safe than sorry.

Asked my Y11 about it earlier (we're not in any of the named areas) and he laughed at me and said it was some idiotic SM thing and no one is stupid enough to believe it.