The kid will get a slap on the wrist. Our society has become so lienent that is why these kids are out of control.

Cops: Teen punched man outside school
by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
Thursday October 16, 2008, 6:14 PM

A 17-year-old Lincoln High School boy was locked up and a city employee hospitalized after the teen punched the man outside school today, officials said.

At 11:52 a.m., a Jersey City police officer assigned to the school was at Crescent and Communipaw avenues when he spotted the student standing behind Jersey City Incinerator Authority Manager Michael Curtis, officials said.

The Gifford Avenue boy swung at the 39-year-old man, punching him in the back of the head and knocking him to the ground, where he struck his head and lost consciousness, officials said.

The boy took off running and police chased him to Brinkerhoff Street where he was arrested on the charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest, reports said.

The victim was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center for treatment and by late afternoon he had regained consciousness, said JCIA CEO Oren K. Dabney Sr.

Curtis, a JCIA employee for 20 years, was working in the area and had stopped at the school to check on his daughter, a student at Lincoln High.

"Our prayers are with him and his family and we are hoping he recovers quickly," Dabney said. "It's sad. Where is the respect? We are talking about a grown man being hit by a teenager."