Parent Says No One Held Accountable After Preschool Fight Club

ST. LOUIS, MO — Teachers at a local preschool set up a kids' fight club two years ago, Fox 2 reports (click through to watch the video). They said they did it to entertain the kids after the facility's heater broke. Both teachers lost their jobs, but one mother thinks enough still hasn't been done to prevent incidents like this from happening again.

The video, recorded by a ten-year-old, shows young children violently beating each other with foam fists as their teachers cheer them on. At one point, other preschoolers try to intervene as a child pins another to the ground, but teachers never do.

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The fights only stopped, mother Nicole Merseal said, when her son texted her video of a child beating his younger brother — she called the preschool's director to intervene.

"He doesn't understand why his friends were fighting him — why he was beaten up by his best friends," she told the television station.

Two teachers were fired, but prosecutors declined to press charges. Though she has since chosen a different daycare for her children, Merseal said she still wants the teachers and the preschool held accountable.

"I don't want this to happen to any other child," she told Fox 2.

State investigators have documented 26 other incidents at the preschool since 2016, including teachers cursing at preschoolers, flicking them and pushing them to the ground.

See more from Fox 2's investigation here.

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