Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1878 — Brutality in Schools. [ARTICLE]

Brutality in Schools.

A Dayton (Ohio) journal says that some boys of the Intermediate School, one evening after school, took hold of a comrade and said they would throw him down Stair. l ?. He held to the balusters, and they pulled his feet, trying to frighten him. He begged them to desist, but they only laughed. When they did let go, however, he fainted, and had to be carried to his home. He did not seem to be much hurt at first, but the next morning he complained of a severe pain in his side. A physician was called, and, upon examination, said that the boy had been strained and was injured internally. Inflammation set in, and, after suffering untold agonies for a few days, he died. Should not some lessons on gentleness and respect for the rights of companions be given in our schools ?