There was one of these in Arkansas last year, right?

https://www.kait8.com/2025/05/30/prosecutor-school-director-was-ringleader-makeshift-child-fight-club/

Oh, one in NJ in 2015:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/child-fight-club-lightbridge-academy/

““I knew from his cry, in the look on his face, that something had happened.” The mom has a sharp eye there. I don’t know I’d be able to tell that there was something wrong with a crying child.

Also, does recording on video count as breaking the first rule?

You get to know what’s a real “I’m hurt really bad” cry from “I’m scared” or “I didn’t get what I want” etc. for your kids.

Also, yes.

the first rule is "nobody talks about fight club." nobody said anything about recording it and posting it on youtube.

AGAIN‽

there was a Blue Jam sketch about this in the 90s...

https://youtu.be/XVfqkNfNBVA?si=IIfO7BtkC07Q-9pR

This must have been where south park got the idea for the crack baby gladiator fights episode where EA sports bought the franchise then cheated the kids out of their cut.

"You met me at a very strange time in my life."

Fire

I'm not saying that isn't awful... Just it's also funny

I guess they didn't have YouTube back then.

“Babies don’t sleep this well.”

I haven't watched South Park regularly in awhile. I should watch that it sounds like a good episode.

It's actually a pretty old episode. "Crack Baby Athletic Association"

I just looked it up and the south park episode is 4 years older than the story from 2015

The cartoons predicted this:

To all the other people wondering “again” …yeah me too. How are there so many childcare workers like this?

Apparently Project Mayhem failed to prevent Youtube from happening.

My youngest is autistic and not very verbal, I've become very good at reading his cries and noises.

So the crack baby fights on South Park inspired folks?

https://hydrahd.ws/watchseries/south-park-online-free

The cries are very different, so are the barks of a dog. But that’s something you learn with time. I understand my kids and my dog perfectly, at the same time I have no idea what other kids or dogs try to say.
A communication form that is uniquely shaped in the family.

It's always Alex Hirsch

Low pay and shitty corporate conduct doesn’t exactly encourage the most compassionate people to apply, sadly

His name is Wobert Pauwson.

Alright, who broke the first two rules!?

This story looks like bullshit. Nevermind the meandering structure or the AI 'verbal' tics - the "original story" source is a reddit link. I apparently read a different story on the same page.

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.

Part of the problem is that when you work with children there's always a moment that makes you consider it. When 3 or 4 are going off on one at the same time there's just a second where it comes to mind before you dismiss it as unreasonable.
When you're low paid and have shitty management those times tend to be a lot more common and you have fewer tools to deal with them. Eventually, when you run out of reasonable alternatives, it starts to look a lot less unreasonable.

Can’t have fun these days

when you work with children there's always a moment that makes you consider it

What the fuck? I used to work with kids and this never once even crossed my mind.

A link to an article on AOL?!

people would never lie on the internet, surely?

not that much different than a homless fight club, or the bougier version, ufc.

I want to know who was making the soap to fund this

They are still Alice and wenn
Even have their own barely costumjsed chrome with a license to buy

Wot?

I mean I just saw the movie, it's constantly broken in the film; it's like rules are made to be broken man.

Ok, sure, if you've only worked adjacent to kids or in one-on-one environments you might still be that naive, but even the most compassionate and sympathetic teachers experience it by the end of their first year - all children misbehave in a wide variety of ways for a wide variety of reasons and thinking yourself above getting annoyed by it is setting yourself up for failure.
You don't actually do it, but you definitely discuss it with your coworkers over lunch on particularly bad days.

I swear ossifer I not have too much drink tonight

Would love to see this show one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP11VfgEDIU

Jeez, I was hoping to click the link and find that it was an old article because I know I saw this exact situation in another article a couple years ago :(

What did you read? The original article was from WFAA and there are interview quotes?

Some of these kids must have forgotten the first rule.

And the second rule

What seen to be the officer, problem?

I havent been fucked like that since...nah that was a poor choice of quotes

thinking yourself above getting annoyed by it is setting yourself up for failure.

I didn't say I've never been annoyed by the children I worked with (which was also not in the scenarios you so condescendingly suggested). I never considered setting up a child fight club, which is beyond fucked up and what it seemed you were suggesting. None of the people I worked with ever suggested such a thing, either.