Teenagers: Still Videotaping Fights for the YouTube

June 15, 2010, 9:40 a.m.

FYI, teens still deem it "cool" to post videos of fights

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FYI, teens still deem it "cool" to post videos of fights on YouTube. Now, back in our day, we just posted videos of ourselves humping ottomans and defending Britney Spears, but these kids, they are out of control. And teachers at Progress High School and the School for Legal Studies in Williamsburg say somebody ought to do something about all these students fightin' and YouTubin'. But who?!

Sharon Kleinfeld, a teacher and union leader at Legal Studies, tells the Daily News, "We need to enforce the rule prohibiting electric devices at our campus." It's unclear what's stopping the teachers from enforcing the ban, but let's assume they just don't want to star in a YouTube fight video themselves. And it's not just the fighting that gets documented; two students were suspended after a YouTube video surfaced showing a female student from Legal Studies "performing a sex act' on a male student at Progress, on a rooftop near the school. "That video blew up—everybody got it," says Gianna Aragona, 15, a sophomore at Legal Studies. "I felt so bad for that girl."

We found two of the Progress High fight videos on YouTube. SPOILER: They feature a mob of bloodthirsty teens laughing and cheering as street fights break out. Watch them if you must, but we much prefer this video from Progress High India: