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Jen Chung
Published Jan 14, 2004
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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They don't teach this in the Starbucks training manual: How to deal with unruly middle schoolers who may beat you outside the store. Three students from Robert F. Wagner school beat up a Starbucks employee after getting into an argument with him outside a Starbucks at Second Avenue and 76th Street. Other students cheered the attackers on, but all kids ran back to school when the police came. No arrests were made. This comes on the heels of Mayor Bloomberg's aggressive school safety effort, doubling the amount of police officers in schools and arresting a dozen students last week. While the school safety crackdown is important, there also seems to be a need for society to crackdown on itself.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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