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

DS also said that loads of kids had been kept off school today because of it. It's def been successful in scaring parents 🙁

I’ve also heard of this. What utter stupid fucking nonsensical shit people get up to. What has happened to us?

I’ve had my 11 year old in tears over it - her Dad walked her to and from school in central Bristol today but about a third of the kids were absent. Police presence around school and they were all told to avoid the centre of town . Whether there is any actual violence it’s caused a huge amount of disruption and upset. Can cybercrime units not trace where this started?

Yes, they probably can trace where it started. But it gets more difficult to stop when it has been shared many thousands of times, and copy cat posts are being made.

Many schools are doing a very good job of dealing with it by explaining the viral nature of memes and the consequences of sharing the post, as well as the consequences of acting on it. But parents are a big part of the problem - they are sharing it, over-reacting to it, and scaring their children.

Yes

My dd school sent an email saying there was talk of another school coming to fight their school at the end of the day yesterday. I didn’t hear anything happened and my daughter didn’t mention it. We are in a neighbouring borough to Croydon.

j guess maybe they took attention after the whole tik tok blind date thing locally that had several hundred teens turn up……

I was relieved when dd got home. Her school was on alert. There was a high teacher presence in the village (SW London Surrey borders).

DD's one of the teachers, had she been a pupil, I'd have collected her and worried less.

Zero trouble here.

They'd stroll around menacingly for a few minutes, and then one would sing a line and they'd all break into a synchronised song-and-dance routine, swinging around the lampposts

😂 this reminds me of DH's explanation of American football. "Rugby: the musical!"

This bollocks has been going on since I was at school in the 80s. However I feel that this is far more serious due to it being spread by social media and having a much further reach.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, as suggested up thread, the whole thing had been started by a political group wanting to make out that the U.K. was violent.

The media are just as guilty of spreading fear and scaremongering.

This article for example

https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/27/londons-school-wars-reveals-violent-slang-terms-every-parent-know-27124602/amp/

The wording not only makes it sound like these fights are happening, but that they’re escalating and spreading quickly.

The cynic in me agrees. Then even if nothing happens, they can still spin it “increased police presence, people are keeping their kids home”. What’s happening? What are they hiding? Similar to the posts in August/September and the supposed organised terror attacks on schools.

That's because it encourages clicks and sharing, including your sharing of it here, which will generate more clicks. The more clicks they get, the greater the advertising revenue.

There's a (formerly) local newspaper in my London Borough that posts clickbait on Facebook from all over London. Every comment is along the lines of "why are you showing me this, it's not local". But each comment increases the post's audience and drives up their revenue, so why should they stop?

@fuzzylodgeickis that the guardian? It drives me nuts.

I was in Bristol city centre early evening yesterday and nothing happening except the lovely light festival.

My teenage boys say there's no pre-existing school rivalry they're aware of, and no one they know is having anything to do with it.

But whoever organised it must be pleased as it's caused such disruption. All parents were emailed, local police having to get on top of it, and at least one school sent their children home at lunchtime.

The other teenagers I know were anxious, it's just horrible and so unnecessary

apparently the adverts started off in London, but nothing happened.

this week the Parent What’s App group whipped into a frenzy and … nothing happened.

I am sure just a lot of nonsense as usual.

Some arse is inciting violence, they’re all over the country further stretching police services due to the hysteria being spread.

The issue is schools and the police can’t afford to ignore and a lot of time, money and resources are being wasted on this.

Yes my DCs schools were named but it was all ok, nothing happened. The schools don’t have any rivalry. Police and school staff were around at home time just in case.

The posts looked very suspect, it looked like AI nonsense to me - one school was spelt incorrectly, a school listed that doesn’t exist, and even universities named! As if any university students are going to get involved in this nonsense.

I get the feeling some idiots have asked AI to generate a load of images and posted them on social media, but I am not sure of the ulterior motive. I highly doubt any school children did this.

But it has wasted huge amounts of time that school staff and police could have better spent on other things. And caused anxiety amongst some families.

One list included a school in our area that closed 18 months ago...