Apps: The Latest Stand Against School Bullies

In a mobile phone video filmed at a Houston high school this April, dozens of students gather in a stairwell to watch a fight. They stand by as a girl, armed with a sock that has a combination lock in the toe, viciously beats another girl to the point that she will later have multiple staples inserted into her head at the emergency room.

Tim Porter is developing an app that he believes can stop violence like this on school grounds.

"If they would have had the app, someone would have alerted student administrators," he says, noting that someone watching the fight already had their phone in hand to take video. "Its just the way that kids communicate now. They all use apps."

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