Ashley Marie Herring, a former student of Cairo-Durham schools in New York, posted on Facebook this week about the bullying she says she went through in high school.
She wrote that she is still healing from it and that “plenty of people from Cairo-Durham have been bullied by this person and their associates.”
Ashley shared several screenshots of a conversation between her and Sitterly that sparked this chaos.
The whole thing blew up after someone named Katie Potter posted about bullying in the same school district years ago.
Ashley left a comment agreeing that the school was bad, but mostly talking about the teachers and the district.
Then another former classmate, who goes by Sitterly Ashley on Facebook, jumped in and said Ashley had actually been the one doing the bullying when they were kids.
Sitterly Ashley wrote:
Not to be rude but u tried to bully me when u first got to our school. I mean it is what it is, it didn’t last long and we were kids.
Sitterly Ashley
But no you’re absolutely correct about the creep ass teachers!
In no time, it started a lengthy back-and-forth in the comments that got nasty fast.
Ashley fired back that she never bullied Sitterly, but in fact, Sitterly and her group were the main reason she hated Cairo-Durham. Ashley wrote:
When I first got there, y’all pressed me for no reason, and in gym class it was always me and a few girls up against your whole crew and you would purposely try to hurt us.
Ashley Marie Herring
Ashley revealed that the real trouble started when Sitterly’s younger sisters and others were mean to Ashley’s little sisters.
She wrote:
Ur sister was being mean to my sisters! That’s what started the whole damn thing… So this all started with ur sis! NOT ME!
Ashley Marie Herring
Things got even more personal when the fight talk came up. Sitterly said she once fought a girl named Sam Utter, who was “3 times my size,” and never tried to fight Ashley, even though Ashley was smaller.
Ashley answered that she wasn’t body-shaming, just pointing out she was 180 pounds and 5-foot-nothing back then, while others were tiny, so nobody would have believed she was the bully picking on smaller kids.
Then Ashley brought up the racial part. She said she got into a real fist fight in school because a boy called her the hard N-word. After she won the fight, she claims Sitterly and her friends started calling her “King Kong” and used the same name on another mixed-race girl.
Ashley reminded Sitterly Ashley:
Let’s not forget: I got into a physical fight because someone called me the hard N-word… you and your associates thought it was cute to call me ‘King Kong.’
Ashley Marie Herring
Sitterly never answered that part directly and kept saying she was done with the argument, telling Ashley to message her privately because it was her cousin Katie’s post.
By the end, Ashley told her, “I can tag so many people that can literally shit ur shit down right now cause they all remember u and ur sisters bullshit! And racist shit as well!! But we won’t go there lol. BYE.”
The comment thread has since been going back and forth with both women saying the other is lying about what really happened in high school, bringing up old fights, gym-class “assaults” with dodgeballs, who was in which clique, and who started what.
Lydia Hall, an old friend, commented on Ashley’s post, writing:
Bully came right out!! SMH! Some people never change! Miss you hun!
Lydia Hall
