Children beaten in schools from Drachevo to Vrapchishte: One attack filmed and posted online, reported six days later

This week's police bulletin read like a diary from a school corridor. In just two days, 15 and 16 October, parents reported several cases in which their underage children were physically attacked - mostly by peers, and in or around a school.

In Drachevo, a 40-year-old Skopje woman reported that her underage son was attacked by several minors at his primary school at around 9:50 a.m. In Bit Pazar, in a primary school yard, a minor was attacked by a group of peers, one of whom he knew - and another minor filmed the whole attack on a mobile phone and posted it on social media. The attack happened on 9 October, and the report only arrived on 15 October.

On 15 October, in the Bit Pazar area, another boy was attacked by a minor, and in the village of Jurumleri, near Skopje, a minor was attacked by one person. On 16 October, at the primary school in Vrapchishte, a 12-year-old boy was attacked in the corridor during the long break by two of his classmates. The attack was stopped by the head teacher, and the child was taken to the village clinic and then to the Medical Centre in Gostivar.

In every case the police are "taking measures to clarify" what happened. That's the standard line in the bulletin, but it doesn't answer the question every parent is asking: where were the adults? In Vrapchishte, the head teacher stepped in - and that's the only case where anyone from the school is mentioned as part of the solution, not just as the location.

The video from Bit Pazar is perhaps the hardest detail. The fight wasn't just a fight - it was content. Someone stood there, filmed and posted it, and the police report came six days later. That's not a problem the police can solve on their own with a complaint.

Schools have support staff and teachers on duty. When four reports like this pile up in Skopje alone in a single day, the question isn't just who threw the punch, but who should have been watching. And do parents find out about this from the school - or from their child and from social media?